{"id":9543,"library":"base2048","title":"Base2048","description":"`base2048` is a Python library that provides efficient binary encoding and decoding using the Base2048 scheme, implemented as a Rust extension for performance. It offers simple functions to convert bytes to Base2048 strings and vice-versa. The current version is 0.1.3, and it functions as a stable utility library with infrequent updates, focusing on its core encoding capabilities.","status":"active","version":"0.1.3","language":"en","source_language":"en","source_url":"https://github.com/mzygmunt/base2048-python","tags":["encoding","binary","base2048","rust","performance"],"install":[{"cmd":"pip install base2048","lang":"bash","label":"Install stable version"}],"dependencies":[],"imports":[{"symbol":"encode","correct":"from base2048 import encode"},{"symbol":"decode","correct":"from base2048 import decode"}],"quickstart":{"code":"from base2048 import encode, decode\n\noriginal_bytes = b\"Hello, Base2048 encoding!\"\n\n# Encode bytes to a Base2048 string\nencoded_string = encode(original_bytes)\nprint(f\"Original bytes: {original_bytes!r}\")\nprint(f\"Encoded string: {encoded_string!r}\")\n\n# Decode Base2048 string back to bytes\ndecoded_bytes = decode(encoded_string)\nprint(f\"Decoded bytes:  {decoded_bytes!r}\")\n\nassert original_bytes == decoded_bytes\n\n# Example with text that needs explicit encoding/decoding\ntext = \"こんにちは, Base2048!\"\ntext_bytes = text.encode('utf-8')\nencoded_text_string = encode(text_bytes)\nprint(f\"\\nOriginal text: {text!r}\")\nprint(f\"Encoded text string: {encoded_text_string!r}\")\n\ndecoded_text_bytes = decode(encoded_text_string)\ndecoded_text = decoded_text_bytes.decode('utf-8')\nprint(f\"Decoded text: {decoded_text!r}\")\nassert text == decoded_text","lang":"python","description":"This quickstart demonstrates how to encode `bytes` to a Base2048 string and decode it back. It also shows the necessary steps to handle text (Unicode) by explicitly converting it to bytes before encoding and back to a string after decoding."},"warnings":[{"fix":"Always convert your string data to `bytes` using an appropriate encoding (e.g., `my_string.encode('utf-8')`) before passing it to `encode()`.","message":"The `base2048.encode()` function strictly expects `bytes` objects as input. Passing a Python `str` directly will result in a `TypeError` because the library operates on raw binary data.","severity":"gotcha","affected_versions":"0.1.x"},{"fix":"Ensure the input to `decode()` is a `str`. The output of `encode()` is already a `str`, so no conversion is needed for decoding its direct result.","message":"The `base2048.decode()` function strictly expects a Python `str` object (the Base2048 encoded string) as input. Passing a `bytes` object will result in a `TypeError`.","severity":"gotcha","affected_versions":"0.1.x"},{"fix":"For text, the workflow should be: `text_str.encode('utf-8')` -> `encode()` -> `decode()` -> `decoded_bytes.decode('utf-8')`.","message":"Base2048 is a binary encoding scheme and does not intrinsically handle character encodings (like UTF-8, Latin-1, etc.). If you are encoding text, you must explicitly encode your `str` to `bytes` before passing it to `encode()` and then decode the resulting `bytes` back to a `str` after calling `decode()`.","severity":"gotcha","affected_versions":"0.1.x"}],"env_vars":null,"last_verified":"2026-04-17T00:00:00.000Z","next_check":"2026-07-16T00:00:00.000Z","problems":[{"fix":"Convert the string to bytes first: `encoded_data = base2048.encode('my string'.encode('utf-8'))`.","cause":"Attempting to encode a Python `str` object directly with `base2048.encode()`.","error":"TypeError: argument 'data': 'str' object cannot be converted to 'bytes'"},{"fix":"The input to `base2048.decode()` must be a Python `str`. Ensure you are passing the string output from `base2048.encode()` or a valid Base2048 string.","cause":"Attempting to decode a Python `bytes` object directly with `base2048.decode()`.","error":"TypeError: argument 'data': 'bytes' object cannot be converted to 'str'"},{"fix":"Install the library using pip: `pip install base2048`.","cause":"The `base2048` library has not been installed in the current Python environment.","error":"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'base2048'"}]}