Issues with serializing a base64 encoded media object

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I found the explanation to my issue here:

TLDR;
when encoding bytes you receive a bytes object, not a string object.

it was resolved by changing the above encode_media function as follows:

def encode_media(media):
  """base64 encode media data"""
  encoded_data = base64.b64encode(media.get_bytes())
  return encoded_data.decode('utf-8')

This returns the string representation of the encoded bytes.

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