def encodeBase64(text): base64chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/" r = "" #the result c = 3 - len(text) % 3 #the length of padding p = "=" * c #the padding s = text + "\0" * c #the text to encode i = 0 while i < len(s): if i > 0 and ((i / 3 * 4) % 76) == 0: r = r + "\r\n" n = (ord(s[i]) << 16) + (ord(s[i+1]) << 8 ) + ord(s[i+2]) n1 = (n >> 18) & 63 n2 = (n >> 12) & 63 n3 = (n >> 6) & 63 n4 = n & 63 r += base64chars[n1] + base64chars[n2] + base64chars[n3] + base64chars[n4] i += 3 return r[0: len(r)-len(p)] + p def decodeBase64(text): base64chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/" s = "" for i in text: if i in base64chars: s += i c = "" else: if i == '=': c += '=' p = "" if c == "=": p = 'A' else: if c == "==": p = "AA" r = "" s = s + p i = 0 while i < len(s): n = (base64chars.index(s[i]) << 18) + (base64chars.index(s[i+1]) << 12) + (base64chars.index(s[i+2]) << 6) +base64chars.index(s[i+3]) r += chr((n >> 16) & 255) + chr((n >> 8) & 255) + chr(n & 255) i += 4 return r[0: len(r) - len(p)] def main(): print(encodeBase64("WELCOME to base64 encoding")) print(decodeBase64(encodeBase64("WELCOME to base64 encoding"))) if __name__ == '__main__': main()