I am confused by MvL’s reply. From the first paragraph documentation for binascii: “Normally, you will not use these functions directly but use wrapper modules like uu, base64, or binhex instead. The binascii module contains low-level functions written in C for greater speed that are used by the higher-level modules.”

Is the doc not accurate?

Also, can someone not unsure about the status of this report edit the type, stage, component and resolution? It would be helpful.