Question

Can someone give me some advice on how to encode a zip file into base64 in Python? There are examples on how to encode files in Python using the module base64, but I have not found any resources on zipfile encoding.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is no different than encoding any other file…

import base64

with open('input.zip', 'rb') as fin, open('output.zip.b64', 'w') as fout:
    base64.encode(fin, fout)

NB: This avoids reading the file into memory to encode it, so should be more efficient.