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"""Base64 encoding in urlsafe format without padding.
Fixes Python base64 module's faults:
- Padding "==" is optional and not produced by base64url.enc
- Base64 type is str (stdlib uses bytes)
- Doesn't silently ignore invalid characters and produce garbage
"""
# We cannot use urlsafe_b64decode which misses the validation argument
from base64 import b64decode as _decode
from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode as _encode
__all__ = ["enc", "dec", "enc_lines", "dec_lines"]
def enc(data: bytes) -> str:
"""Base64 encode bytes to a URL-safe string without padding."""
return _encode(data).decode("ascii").rstrip("=")
def dec(s: str, *, validate=True) -> bytes:
"""Decode standard or urlsafe Base64, with or without padding.
Validation raises binascii.Error (ValueError) on invalid characters.
If False, any unrecognized characters are silently ignored.
"""
# Testing whether needs padding is slower, this is the fastest way and constant time.
return _decode(s + -len(s) % 4 * "=", altchars=b"-_", validate=validate)
def enc_lines(data: bytes, length: int = 76, sep="\n") -> str:
"""Base64 encode bytes to a URL-safe string split into lines.
Returns a string with newlines inserted after every `length` characters.
The value should be a multiple of 4 for best compatibility with other systems.
"""
s = enc(data)
return sep.join([s[i : i + length] for i in range(0, len(s), length)])
def dec_lines(s: str) -> bytes:
"""Decode standard or urlsafe Base64 from a multiline string.
All whitespace is ignored to allow formatted input.
Raises binascii.Error (ValueError) on other invalid characters.
"""
return dec("".join(s.split()))