:   '''[binary] decode''' ''encoding data''

Decodes the string ''data'' to a string of bytes (characters from `\u0000`–`\u00ff`) according to the encoding rule ''encoding''. The ''encoding'' must currently be one of '''[base64]''', '''hex''', or '''[uuencode]'''.

This functionality became available due to [TIP] [http://tip.tcl.tk/317%|%#317].

**See also**
   * [binary encode]

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