def base_enc_str(s: str, base=52) -> int:
    """base_enc_str
    will take a string and attempt to encode the string as base 52 number by
    default.

    :param s:
    :type s: str
    :param base:
    :rtype: int
    """
    return (
        (np.array(list(bytes(s, encoding="utf-8"))) - 64)
        * (base ** np.arange(len(s) - 1, -1, -1))
    ).sum()