Question

This is my current code:

 encodedstring = base64.encodestring(b"admin:password")[:-1]

Now i want to use variables for the username & password, something like this?

  username = "admin"
  password = "password"
  user_pass = username + ":" + password

  user_pass = b"user_pass <<<<?
  encodedstring = base64.encodestring(user_pass)[:-1]

How can i do this?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

Well, like this?

username = b"admin"
password = b"password"
user_pass = username + b":" + password

encodedstring = base64.encodestring(user_pass)[:-1]

Or are you saying that username and password comes from someplace which gives you strings?

In that case encode them.

username = get_username().encode('UTF8')
password = get_password().encode('UTF8')
user_pass = username + b":" + password

Use UTF-8 so that non-ascii characters work as well.