Python 3 - String decode() Method

Description

The decode() method decodes the string using the codec registered for encoding. It defaults to the default string encoding.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for decode() method −

Str.decode(encoding = 'UTF-8',errors = 'strict')

Parameters

• encoding − This is the encodings to be used. For a list of all encoding schemes please visit − Standard Encodings.

• errors − This may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default for errors is 'strict', meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 'backslashreplace' and any other name registered via codecs.register_error().

Return Value

Decoded string.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python3

Str = "this is string example....wow!!!";
Str = Str.encode('base64','strict');

print "Encoded String: " + Str
print "Decoded String: " + Str.decode('base64','strict')

Result

When we run above program, it produces the following result −

Encoded String: b'dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE='

Decoded String: this is string example....wow!!!