"""Wrappers to de/encode and de/inflate strings"""
import base64
import zlib
def decode_base64_and_inflate(b64string):
"""Base64 decode and ZLib decompress b64string"""
decoded_data = base64.b64decode(b64string)
try:
return zlib.decompress(decoded_data, -15)
except zlib.error:
return decoded_data
def deflate_and_base64_encode(string_val):
"""Base64 and ZLib Compress b64string"""
zlibbed_str = zlib.compress(string_val)
compressed_string = zlibbed_str[2:-4]
return base64.b64encode(compressed_string)
def nice64(src):
""" Returns src base64-encoded and formatted nicely for our XML. """
return base64.b64encode(src).decode("utf-8").replace("\n", "")
