Base64 Encoder & Decoder in 37 Lines of Python | The BASED Encoding??!

In this video, let's learn how base64 encoding works, and let's implement our own encoder and decoder using Python!
Original example: github.com/leon73/Python-Base64
My version: github.com/kndndrj/inloc/tree/master/base64

[@collatedcopies]

Absolutely wonderful videos. Please continue this series - it's really educational!

[@cheesed_up]

Thanks! It's really great to read comments like this.

[@SomerledDesign]

Thank you. I very much enjoyed that.

[@lancemarchetti8673]

Nice! I'm currently working on new Steganography idea that incorporates Base64.

[@cheesed_up]

Whoa, sounds nice. I'm thinking of playing around with stenography and making a video in the future! I'd be glad to hear how your project goes! Good luck!

[@maenova417]

Nice! Would’ve been cool to show the image base64, before decoding it

[@cheesed_up]

Yeah, in retrospect, I can see that!

[@roganl]

QQ - Why is 'bits' of type string on the encode? I would have expected it to be of type bytearray.

[@0LoneTech]

Probably because it easily matches the string formatting he used to produce the data he put in there. In theory using strings for a growing buffer like this would be more costly because they're immutable, but it's a common case that CPython does optimize for in particular.