#🔒 Codecs Modules, Unable to get expected output.

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winged dew
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https://paste.pythondiscord.com/QU5A

I'm trying to understand the codecs module to see If I can create a program to decode and encode any input with the functionally of dynamically choose what type to decode/encode you use but I'm having an issue on understand the instruction on using the codecs module. I looked at some examples of converting strings like hex which was a success but when I tried with other decoding type like base64.

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lofty ridgeBOT
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valid lantern
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You're not supposed to pass a string there.

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@winged dew

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@winged dew Here is the part of that traceback that tells you what you did incorrectly.

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Usually you will get a TypeError or similar when it expects one thing but doesn't get it.

winged dew
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Why did it work for when I did it on a hex?

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@valid lantern

valid lantern
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How are you running the program when you give it the hex input?

winged dew
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it outputted b'hello'

valid lantern
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When you run the program with the base64 input how do you run it @winged dew ?

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That's the output of your script after I told it to print(type(input_decode))

winged dew
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Yeah. I'm ok if it output as a byte. Its just weird that it works on the decoding hex input but not base64 input unless the input need to be pass as a byte.

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