How to encode text to base64 in python
Remember to import base64 and that b64encode takes bytes as an argument.
import base64base64.b64encode(bytes('your string', 'utf-8'))
It turns out that this is important enough to get it's own module...
import base64base64.b64encode(b'your name') # b'eW91ciBuYW1l'base64.b64encode('your name'.encode('ascii')) # b'eW91ciBuYW1l'
1) This works without imports in Python 2:
>>>>>> 'Some text'.encode('base64')'U29tZSB0ZXh0\n'>>>>>> 'U29tZSB0ZXh0\n'.decode('base64')'Some text'>>>>>> 'U29tZSB0ZXh0'.decode('base64')'Some text'>>>(although this doesn't work in Python3 )
2) In Python 3 you'd have to import base64 and do base64.b64decode('...')- will work in Python 2 too.