This package contains a Python 3 module and script for basencoding, which treats each byte sequence as a base-256 number and convert it to another base between 2 and 36.

This provide two functions encode(data, [base]) and decode(data, [base, encoding]) to encode and decode a bytes data using basencoding and return a bytes object.

The argument base is also a bytes and might be in either base-36 (to specify output's case) or base-10 (and 0 for lower, 1 for upper 36).

Because the functions process bytes, so they can deal with all kind of data, text (encoded in any encoding support by Python), binary, etc. For example:

>>> encode(b'CnX', b'g')
b'436e58\n'
>>> decode(encode('Phần mềm tự do muôn năm!'.encode())).decode()
'Phần mềm tự do muôn năm!'

This is the front-end for basencoding, which supports both Standard I/O and files. Encoded output will be 1.5 to 8 times larger than the input data, depending on the base chosen to encode. Note that the program is incredibly slow on big data (100kB and above) as it converts the whole data scheme to one integer.

$ basenc -h
usage: basenc [-h] [-v] [-i INFILE] [-o OUTFILE] [-d] [-b BASE] [-e ENCODING]

Encode and decode files using basencoding.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -i INFILE, --infile INFILE
                        input file, if not set read standard input
  -o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
                        output file, if not set read standard output
  -d, --decode          decode the data
  -b BASE, --base BASE  base system between 2 and 36, written in base 36 to
                        specify letters case of output if needed (incase base
                        is 36, use 0 for lowercase, 1 for uppercase). If this
                        is not set, the base will be picked to ensure data is
                        decodable to text in set encoding when decode, and
                        picked randomly when encode.
  -e ENCODING, --encoding ENCODING
                        set encoding, only useful when base is not set
$ echo 48656c6c6f2C20576f726C64210A | basenc -d
Hello, World!
$ basenc -i foobar
56c5A920546869c3AA6e205472756e67204869e1Babf750A
$ basenc -i /usr/bin/python3 -o base_python3 -b 20

If you find any bug or have any suggestion, please fill an issue on Github: https://github.com/McSinyx/basencoding. Enjoy the encoding toy!