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Code reviewMediumcr-g119
Subject EncodingLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Python code that puts a token in a URL.

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Code to reviewpython
import base64, json def make_token(payload: dict) -> str:    raw = json.dumps(payload).encode('utf-8')    return base64.b64encode(raw).decode('ascii') def read_token(token: str) -> dict:    raw = base64.b64decode(token)    return json.loads(raw)
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