Remove the new line “\n” from base64 encoded strings in Python3?

Question

I\'m trying to make a HTTPS connection in Python3 and when I try to encode my username and password the base64 encodebytes method returns the encoded v

Answer 1

Instead of encodestring consider using b64encode. Later does not add \n characters. e.g.

In [11]: auth = b'username@domain.com:passWORD'

In [12]: base64.encodestring(auth)
Out[12]: b'dXNlcm5hbWVAZG9tYWluLmNvbTpwYXNzV09SRA==\n'

In [13]: base64.b64encode(auth)
Out[13]: b'dXNlcm5hbWVAZG9tYWluLmNvbTpwYXNzV09SRA=='

It produces identical encoded string except the \n