Python UUID and bytes encode decode

It's been a while, I've ventured into the Python world, it's a new beginning.

This piece of code should visualize the UUID generated object converted into different forms and output as a string to the console

import uuid

import base64

def test_returns_uuid(the_uuid=None):
    # Given
    the_uuid = uuid.uuid4()
    print('\nA UUID: ', the_uuid)
    # Convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form
    print('\nAs String: ', str(the_uuid))
    # Convert a UUID to a 32-character hexadecimal string
    print('\nIn HEX: ', the_uuid.hex)
    # as urlSafe binary format
    base64_encoded = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(str(the_uuid).encode('utf-8'))
    print('\nEncoded Base64', str(base64_encoded.decode('utf-8')).replace('=', ''))
    print('\nDecoded Base64', str(base64.urlsafe_b64decode(base64_encoded

        .decode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')))