Question

I have Base64 encoded data from an experiment. So what I am trying to do in stepwise is:

• Retrieve bytes from base64 encoding (Decode it)
• Convert bytes to little-endian
• Decompress bytes from (zlib)
• Convert byte array to float array

Example:

Dn3LQ3np4kOyxQJE20kDRBRuFkScZB5ENxEzRFa+O0THMz9EOQRCRFC1QkRYeUNEwXJJROfbSUScvE5EVDtVRK5PV0TLUWNE481lRHX7ZkSBBWpE9FVyRIFdeESkoHhEnid8RI1nfUSy4YBE/C2CRGKQg0RcR4RE54uEROUAhUTBWodErKyMRNsVkkRvUpJEukWURO58lkSqRZ1E2VauRPBTwEQf9cVE9BnKRA==

What I have tried so far

import os
import base64
import struct

s = 'Dn3LQ3np4kOyxQJE20kDRBRuFkScZB5ENxEzRFa+O0THMz9EOQRCRFC1QkRYeUNEwXJJROfbSUScvE5EVDtVRK5PV0TLUWNE481lRHX7ZkSBBWpE9FVyRIFdeESkoHhEnid8RI1nfUSy4YBE/C2CRGKQg0RcR4RE54uEROUAhUTBWodErKyMRNsVkkRvUpJEukWURO58lkSqRZ1E2VauRPBTwEQf9cVE9BnKRA=='
decode=base64.decodestring(s)

tmp_size=len(decode)/4

Now I am trying to convert these byte to little endian from here.

I want to do the next operation in Python.

I am trying to figure it out myself but, it is taking too much time.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It appears your data isn’t actually compressed. Read the data as floats either in a loop using struct.unpack_from() or as one big structure using struct.unpack().

import base64
import struct

encoded = 'Dn3LQ3np ... 9BnKRA=='

# decode the string
data = base64.standard_b64decode(encoded)

# ensure that there's enough data for 32-bit floats
assert len(data) % 4 == 0

# determine how many floats there are
count = len(data) // 4

# unpack the data as floats
result = struct.unpack('<{0}f'.format(count), # one big structure of `count` floats
                       data)                  # results returned as a tuple

If the data is compressed, decompress it.

import zlib

decompressed = zlib.decompress(data)