Python 3 - String decode() Method

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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!!!