How to include pictures bytes to a JSON with python? (encoding issue)

Question

I would like to include picture bytes into a JSON, but I struggle with a encoding issue:

import urllib
import json

data = urllib.urlopen(\'https://www.pytho         


        

Answer 1

The best solution that comes to my mind for this situation, space-wise, is base85 encoding which represents four bytes as five characters. Also you could also map every byte to the corresponding character in U+0000-U+00FF format and then dump it in the json. But still, those could be overkill methods for this and base64, ease-wise, would be the winner.