grubles

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Electrum - lightweight Bitcoin client
# Copyright (C) 2011 thomasv@gitorious
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#

xtornasol512

''' Convert any file to base64 using base64 python standard library '''
import base64

with open('MyFile.ext', 'rb') as f:
    # read file as binary and encode to base64
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(f.read())

with open('cer.base64', 'w') as f:
    # write in a new file the base64
    f.write(encoded_string)