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

For py3, base64 encode and decode string:

import base64

def b64e(s):
    return base64.b64encode(s.encode()).decode()


def b64d(s):
    return base64.b64decode(s).decode()