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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re:base64 convert to binary by binascii  is that right?
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 05:26:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Frank Liou <fk26541598fk@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
>     conn = engine.connect()
>     encoded = base64.b64encode(getbody)
>     binary_string = binascii.a2b_base64(encoded)
>     puresql = sqla.text("INSERT INTO friends(name) VALUES(:binary_string)")
>     conn.execute(puresql,binary_string = binary_string)
> 
> 

Start by specifying Python version. 

Since you're only asking about two lines,  replace the rest with
 something that people can actually run. And instead of just
 printing binary_string,  show its type as well. 


-- 
DaveA