Hex to Base64 conversion in Python

Question

I want to convert a simple HEX string such as 10000000000002ae to Base 64.

The hex string is to be converted to bytes, and the bytes are then encoded to base64 notation,

Answer 1

Python has native support for both HEX and base64 encoding:

import base64

def main():
    b16 = bytearray('10000000000002ae'.decode('hex'))
    b64 = base64.b64encode(b16)

    print b64