python - How to ROT13 encode in Python3?

Question

The Python 3 documentation has rot13 listed on its codecs page.

I tried encoding a string using rot13 encoding:

import codecs
s  = "hello"
os = codecs.encode( s, "rot13" )
print(os)

This gives a unknown encoding: rot13 error. Is there a different way to use the in-built rot13 encoding? If this encoding has been removed in Python 3 (as Google search results seem to indicate), why is it still listed in Python3 documentation?

Answer 1

In Python 3.2+, there is rot_13 str-to-str codec:

import codecs

print(codecs.encode("hello", "rot-13")) # -> uryyb