Define argument of base58_encode as bytes

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/cpaste b/cpaste
index 010e01d..23b9993 100755
--- a/cpaste
+++ b/cpaste
@@ -47,14 +47,11 @@ except ImportError:
     guess_lang = False
 
 
-def base58_encode(v):
+def base58_encode(v: bytes):
     # 58 char alphabet
     alphabet = b'123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
     alphabet_len = len(alphabet)
 
-    if isinstance(v, str) and not isinstance(v, bytes):
-        v = v.encode('ascii')
-
     nPad = len(v)
     v = v.lstrip(b'\0')
     nPad -= len(v)