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This is the API documentation for the gdtest_seealso library.
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## Classes

Main classes provided by the package


Encoder(codec: str = 'utf-8')

An encoder/decoder pair.

%seealso encode, decode

Parameters
----------
codec
    The codec to use.


## Functions

Utility functions


decode(data: bytes, codec: str = 'utf-8') -> str

Decode bytes to a string.

%seealso encode, validate

Parameters
----------
data
    The bytes to decode.
codec
    The codec to use.

Returns
-------
str
    The decoded string.

encode(data: str, codec: str = 'utf-8') -> bytes

Encode a string to bytes.

%seealso decode, validate

Parameters
----------
data
    The string to encode.
codec
    The codec to use.

Returns
-------
bytes
    The encoded bytes.

validate(data: str | bytes) -> bool

Validate that data can be encoded/decoded.

%seealso encode, decode

Parameters
----------
data
    The data to validate.

Returns
-------
bool
    True if valid.