What is binascii.b2a_base64 in Python?
The binascii is a widely used Python library for ASCII-encoded binary representations. It contains several methods for converting to binary from ASCII or hex, and vice versa.
binascii.b2a_base64 is a widely used method in Python binascii to convert a binary data to a line of ASCII characters. However, these conversions are made in Base64 coding refers to encoding data from binary to text. This translates binary data to a radix-64 format in order to represent binary data in an ASCII string format.
Syntax
binascii.b2a_base64 (data, newline: bool=True)
Parameters
data: The binary data that needs to be converted. Returns a converted line of ASCII characters.newline: Adds a newline “\n” if the newline variable is set toTrue.
Return value
Returns
str|bytes
Code
Let’s look at a basic example using b2a_base64. In this code, we simply convert data to a line of ASCII characters in base64 coding. First, we convert data into binary format using bytes method. Next, we use binascii.b2a_base64 to convert the data and print the result.
import binascii# datax = "hello world"# convert to binaryres = bytes(x, 'utf-8')# ASCII in base_64print(binascii.b2a_base64(res))
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