On 2007-02-22, Ganesan Rajagopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! INSIDE, I have the at same personality disorder visi.com as LUCY RICARDO!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list