split into usable functions and added docstrings for base32 cipher (#5466)

* split into usable functions and added docstrings

* Simplified code

Co-authored-by: Christian Clauss <[email protected]>

* Simplified code

Co-authored-by: Christian Clauss <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Christian Clauss <[email protected]>

Author: QuartzAl

ciphers/base32.py

@@ -1,13 +1,42 @@
 import base64
 
 
-def main() -> None:
-    inp = input("->")
-    encoded = inp.encode("utf-8")  # encoded the input (we need a bytes like object)
-    b32encoded = base64.b32encode(encoded)  # b32encoded the encoded string
-    print(b32encoded)
-    print(base64.b32decode(b32encoded).decode("utf-8"))  # decoded it
+def base32_encode(string: str) -> bytes:
+    """
+    Encodes a given string to base32, returning a bytes-like object
+    >>> base32_encode("Hello World!")
+    b'JBSWY3DPEBLW64TMMQQQ===='
+    >>> base32_encode("123456")
+    b'GEZDGNBVGY======'
+    >>> base32_encode("some long complex string")
+    b'ONXW2ZJANRXW4ZZAMNXW24DMMV4CA43UOJUW4ZY='
+    """
+
+    # encoded the input (we need a bytes like object)
+    # then, b32encoded the bytes-like object
+    return base64.b32encode(string.encode("utf-8"))
+
+
+def base32_decode(encoded_bytes: bytes) -> str:
+    """
+    Decodes a given bytes-like object to a string, returning a string
+    >>> base32_decode(b'JBSWY3DPEBLW64TMMQQQ====')
+    'Hello World!'
+    >>> base32_decode(b'GEZDGNBVGY======')
+    '123456'
+    >>> base32_decode(b'ONXW2ZJANRXW4ZZAMNXW24DMMV4CA43UOJUW4ZY=')
+    'some long complex string'
+    """
+
+    # decode the bytes from base32
+    # then, decode the bytes-like object to return as a string
+    return base64.b32decode(encoded_bytes).decode("utf-8")
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+    test = "Hello World!"
+    encoded = base32_encode(test)
+    print(encoded)
+
+    decoded = base32_decode(encoded)
+    print(decoded)