python base64 encode to string

Question

I want to encode some data as Base64, and then have the encoded data concatenated in a string.

when I do:

four=base64.urlsafe_b64encode(bytes(MAIL, "utf-8"))
print (four)

result will be:

b'YWxleEBhbGV4LmFsZXg='

I want to remove the b'' from four. So that only YWxleEBhbGV4LmFsZXg= is shown. How do I go about getting just the string YWxleEBhbGV4LmFsZXg= withouth the byte type?

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-19 09:32:17Z

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You have a bytes object; decode it to Unicode:

print(four.decode('ascii'))

Base64 only uses ASCII characters, so that's a good codec do use here. If you don't explicitly decode, print() can only use the repr() representation, which produces Python literal syntax, the syntax you'd use to create the same value as a literal.

answered Apr 19, 2016 at 9:32

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Alexandru Marton Over a year ago

worked like a charm. Thank you for the explanation. I used hexdigest() for a sha1 hash that also had extra text, but this wouldn't work for the base64 encoded element. the .decode('ascii') worked though.

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