from base64 import standard_b64decode, standard_b64encode from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify def as_base64_bytes(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode(enc) return standard_b64encode(x) def as_base64_unicode(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode(enc) return standard_b64encode(x).decode('ascii') def from_base64_unicode(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode('ascii') return standard_b64decode(x).decode(enc) def from_base64_bytes(x): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode('ascii') return standard_b64decode(x) def as_hex_bytes(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode(enc) return hexlify(x) def as_hex_unicode(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode(enc) return hexlify(x).decode('ascii') def from_hex_unicode(x, enc='utf-8'): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode('ascii') return unhexlify(x).decode(enc) def from_hex_bytes(x): if isinstance(x, str): x = x.encode('ascii') return unhexlify(x)