How to encode a String in Python ?

String encode( ) Method

 The encode() method returns an encoded version of the string. Default encoding is the current default string encoding. The errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme.

Syntax

str.encode(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 import base64 Str = "this is string example....wow!!!" Str=base64.b64encode(Str.encode('utf-8',errors='strict')) print ("Encoded String: " , Str)

Result

Encoded String: b'dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE='

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