Base64 Encoding and Decoding to Strings in Python.

b64stringencoding.py

import base64

# Convert this to a b64 string:
some_str = "Some string..."

b64string = base64.b64encode(some_str.encode("utf-8")).decode("utf-8")
#                                                     ^^ Without this, it's a byte array.

# /nomorehairpulling

print(b64string)

# And to decode:
back_to_some_str = base64.b64decode(b64string).decode("utf-8")

print(back_to_some_str)