Function encode

helper_func.py:28–32

(string)

        return True

async def encode(string):
    string_bytes = string.encode("ascii")
    base64_bytes = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(string_bytes)
    base64_string = (base64_bytes.decode("ascii")).strip("=")
    return base64_string

async def decode(base64_string):
    base64_string = base64_string.strip("=") # links generated before this commit will be having = sign, hence striping them to handle padding errors.