The decode() method decodes the string using the codec registered for encoding. It defaults to the default string encoding.
Following is the syntax for decode() method −
Str.decode(encoding = 'UTF-8',errors = 'strict')
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().
Decoded string.
#!/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')
When we run above program, it produces the following result −
Encoded String: b'dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE=' Decoded String: this is string example....wow!!!