Convert to binary and convert back to strings

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-02-22, Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan at myrealbox.com> wrote:

>> I am hoping to have it show up some weird un-readable text.
>> And then of course be able to convert it right back to a
>> string. Is this even possible?
>
> Looks like you just want to obfuscate the string. How about
> this?
>
> import base64
> text = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'
> open('sambleb.conf', 'w').write(base64.encodestring(text))
>
> print base64.decodestring(open('sambleb.conf', 'r').read())

It'll only remain obfuscated for about 30 seconds after even a
mildly curious user looks at the file.

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