A simple encoder/decoder using Base64 and Gzip.

simple-encoder.py

import base64
import gzip

import fire


def encode_text(src_path, dst_path="encode.txt"):
    with open(src_path, "rb") as fp:
        data = fp.read()

    data = gzip.compress(data)
    data = base64.b64encode(data)
    data = data.decode("UTF-8")

    with open(dst_path, "wt", encoding="UTF-8") as fp:
        fp.write(data)


def decode_text(src_path="encode.txt", dst_path="decode.txt"):
    with open(src_path, "rt", encoding="UTF-8") as fp:
        data = fp.read()

    data = data.encode("UTF-8")
    data = base64.b64decode(data)
    data = gzip.decompress(data)

    with open(dst_path, "wb") as fp:
        fp.write(data)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    fire.Fire(dict(encode=encode_text, decode=decode_text))