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python-3.xcharacter-encoding
dkelaty
dkelaty

Reputation: 5

encoding and decoding a string to binary or hex in python 3.5

i am making a program for me to use in school (on a public server) and some people are changing it and ruining my passwords that are stored in it, could someone please tell me how to convert a string to binary or hex and vice-versa so that people cant see the passwords bear in mind that the people in school are not so brilliant at coding and will be fooled by something quite simple i also dont think that i have the rights to install things on the school computers.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 462

Answers (1)

Dave J
Dave J

Reputation: 485

Besides the fact, that you should not store your passwords so accessible, the base64 module does exactly what you want.

Here an example:

from base64 import b64encode, b64decode

mypw = "mypassword".encode()     # needs to be a binary-string
encrPW = b64encode(mypw)         # equals b'bXlwYXNzd29yZA=='
assert mypw == b64decode(encrPW) # decoding results in the password
strPW = mypw.decode()            # the python-string representation of the password
                                 # (most possibly the one you need later on)

Upvotes: 1

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