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Improve Base16 Codebase #3534

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Add doctest and remove input() usage
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18 changes: 13 additions & 5 deletions ciphers/base16.py
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import base64
import doctest


def main():
inp = input("->")
def encode_to_b16(inp):
"""
Encodes a given utf-8 string into base-16.
>>> encode_to_b16('Hello World!')
b'48656C6C6F20576F726C6421'
>>> encode_to_b16('HELLO WORLD!')
b'48454C4C4F20574F524C4421'
>>> encode_to_b16('')
b''
"""
encoded = inp.encode("utf-8") # encoded the input (we need a bytes like object)
b16encoded = base64.b16encode(encoded) # b16encoded the encoded string
print(b16encoded)
print(base64.b16decode(b16encoded).decode("utf-8")) # decoded it
return b16encoded


if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
doctest.testmod()