Function EncodeToBytes

fire/console/console_attr.py:757–795

r"""Encode data to bytes. The primary use case is for base64/mime style 7-bit ascii encoding where the encoder input must be bytes. "safe" means that the conversion always returns bytes and will not raise codec exceptions. If data is text then an 8-bit ascii encoding is attempted, then the

(data)

def EncodeToBytes(data):
  r"""Encode data to bytes.

  The primary use case is for base64/mime style 7-bit ascii encoding where the
  encoder input must be bytes. "safe" means that the conversion always returns
  bytes and will not raise codec exceptions.

  If data is text then an 8-bit ascii encoding is attempted, then the console
  encoding, and finally utf-8.

  Args:
    data: Any bytes, string, or object that has str() or unicode() methods.

  Returns:
    A bytes string representation of the data.
  """
  if data is None:
    return b''
  if isinstance(data, bytes):
    # Already bytes - our work is done.
    return data

  # Coerce to text that will be converted to bytes.
  s = str(data)

  try:
    # Assume the text can be directly converted to bytes (8-bit ascii).
    return s.encode('iso-8859-1')
  except UnicodeEncodeError:
    pass

  try:
    # Try the output encoding.
    return s.encode(GetConsoleAttr().GetEncoding())
  except UnicodeEncodeError:
    pass

  # Punt to utf-8.
  return s.encode('utf-8')


def Decode(data, encoding=None):