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

It turns out that this is important enough to get it's own module...

import base64
base64.b64encode(b'your name')  # b'eW91ciBuYW1l'
base64.b64encode('your name'.encode('ascii'))  # b'eW91ciBuYW1l'