[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 25, 2013, at 03:34 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

>In the case of JSON objects, they are intended for data exchange, and
>hence in the end need to be byte strings.

Except that they're not.

http://bugs.python.org/issue10976

-Barry