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

To compatibility with both py2 and py3

import six
import base64

def b64encode(source):
    if six.PY3:
        source = source.encode('utf-8')
    content = base64.b64encode(source).decode('utf-8')