title: Steganography in Python - Stepic
body: <p>Using Stepic 0.3. I am executing commands to encode a message into a JPG image. The code I use is the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from PIL import Image
  import stepic
  
  im = Image.open ("tester.jpg")
  im2 = stepic.encode(im, '0987639987069730979076409784690y7689734')
  im2.save('stegtest.jpg')
  im1 = Image.open('stegtest.jpg')
  s = stepic.decode(im1) 
  print s
  data = s.decode() 
  print data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Yet the print S and print data give me a value like: 6`   or some other weird charcter. I think I am using the functions as theyre supposed to be used, why don't I get proper results?</p>