How to use the base64 python module. - Python

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So last night while working on my base64 encrypter i realized that there was nearly no documentation explaining how to use base encryption so i decided to write this tutorial.


import base64

This code above is the most vital part of the code as it tells python to import the base64 module which is needed for all us of base64 encryption
Ok so now we have imported base64 we can now write a small little script to encode and print the string this would look like:

import base64
a = raw_input(\"What do you want to encode? \")
b = base64&#46;b64encode(a)
print b

This will encrypt a string using base64

To decode the code would look like this:

import base64
c = raw_input(\"What do you want to decode? \")
d = base64&#46;b64decode(c)
print d

Now you have go the basics there are some more advanced things you can do with the base64 such as URL safe this replaces + with -,/ with _ and the results can still contain =

You can also base32 encode, the code would look like:

import base64
a = raw_input(\"What do you want to encode? \")
b = base64&#46;b32encode(a)
print b

You can also use base 16 to encode, the code would look like:

import base64
a = raw_input(\"What do you want to encode? \")
b = base64&#46;b16encode(a)
print b

You can also decode both of these 2 above with:
for base16

import base64
c = raw_input(\"What do you want to decode? \")
d = base64&#46;b16decode(c)
print d

For base32

import base64
c = raw_input(\"What do you want to decode? \")
d = base64&#46;b32decode(c)
print d

I hope people found this interesting and helpful.

Xin

Nice! Very interesting tutorial , was very useful

GameOver

Good work! Keep up! Post this tutorials and I will give you one present! xD

yahiashowgan

Very Helpful!
Thanks :)

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