How to encode text to base64 in python

Question

I am trying to encode a text string to base64.

i tried doing this :

name = \"your name\"
print(\'encoding %s in base64 yields = %s\\n\'%(name,name.en         


        

Answer 1

Remember to import base64 and that b64encode takes bytes as an argument.

import base64
base64.b64encode(bytes('your string', 'utf-8'))