Hi. Is this a feature? I do see b32encode padding the string with NULs first. >>> b32decode(b32encode('\x00')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/base64.py", line 228, in b32decode last = binascii.unhexlify(hex(acc)[2:-1]) TypeError: Odd-length string