Convert byte[] to base64 and ASCII in Python

Question

How do I to convert and array of byte to base64 string and/or ASCII. I can do this easily in C#, but can't seem to do this in Python

Accepted Answer

The simplest approach would be: Array to json to base64:

```
import json
import base64

data = [0, 1, 0, 0, 83, 116, -10]
dataStr = json.dumps(data)

base64EncodedStr = base64.b64encode(dataStr.encode('utf-8'))
print(base64EncodedStr)

print('decoded', base64.b64decode(base64EncodedStr))
```

Prints out:

```
>>> WzAsIDEsIDAsIDAsIDgzLCAxMTYsIC0xMF0=
>>> ('decoded', '[0, 1, 0, 0, 83, 116, -10]')  # json.loads here !
```

... another option could be using bitarray module.

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