[Tutor] urllib unquote

[Norman Khine]

it is my error, the data is a sha string and it is not possible to get 
the string back, unless you use rainbowtables or something of the sort.

Kent Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Norman Khine <norman at khine.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Can someone point me in the right direction. I would like to return the
>> string for the following:
>>
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import base64, urllib
>>>>> data = 'hL/FGNS40fjoTnp2zIqq73reK60%3D%0A'
>>>>> data = urllib.unquote(data)
>>>>> print base64.decodestring(data)
>> ???Ը???Nzv̊??z?+?
>> What am I missing?
> 
> How is data created? Since it doesn't decode as you expect, either it
> isn't base64 or there is some other processing needed. Do you have an
> example of a data string where you know the desired decoded value?
> 
> Kent
>