Python Basic Authentication source?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sean Hummel <seanh at unforgettable.com> wrote:
> I am looking for code which can generate the HTTP Basic authentication 
> header, from a user name and header. Anyone have any such code?

import base64, string
auth = string.strip(base64.encodestring("%s:%s" % (user, password)))
print "Authorization: Basic %s" % auth

btw, urllib can handle basic authentication for you, if you give
the URL as:

    http://user:password@host/...

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