Question

I have a string like this:

String A: [ 12234_1_Hello'World_34433_22acb_4554344_accCC44 ]

I would like to encrypt String A to be used in a clean URL. something like this:

String B: [ cYdfkeYss4543423sdfHsaaZ ]

Is there a encode API in python, given String A, it returns String B?
Is there a decode API in python, given String B, it returns String A?

Answer 1

One way of doing the encode/decode is to use the package base64, for an example:

import base64
import sys

encoded = base64.b64encode(sys.stdin.read())
print encoded

decoded = base64.b64decode(encoded)
print decoded

Is it what you were looking for? With your particular case you get:

input: 12234_1_Hello’World_34433_22acb_4554344_accCC44

encoded: MTIyMzRfMV9IZWxsbydXb3JsZF8zNDQzM18yMmFjYl80NTU0MzQ0X2FjY0NDNDQ=

decoded: 12234_1_Hello’World_34433_22acb_4554344_accCC44