# data2base64.py - convert a file to base64 and write to stdout
# Copyright (c) 2009 Niall McCarroll  
# Distributed under the MIT/X11 License (http://www.mccarroll.net/snippets/license.txt)

# usage:
#   python data2base64.py input-file-name

import base64
import sys

datafile = sys.argv[1]

f = open(datafile)
datastring = f.read()

b64string = base64.b64encode(datastring);
print b64string