Encode IP address using all printable characters in Python 2.7.x -

i encode ip address in short string possible using printable characters. according https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ascii#printable_characters these codes 20hex 7ehex.

for example:

shorten("172.45.1.33") --> "^.1 9" maybe. 

in order make decoding easy need length of encoding same. avoid using space character in order make parsing easier in future.

how can 1 this?

i looking solution works in python 2.7.x.

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my attempt far modify eloims's answer work in python 2:

first installed ipaddress backport python 2 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipaddress) .

#this needed because ipaddress expects character strings , not byte strings textual ip address representations  __future__ import unicode_literals import ipaddress import base64  #taken http://stackoverflow.com/a/20793663/2179021 def to_bytes(n, length, endianess='big'):     h = '%x' % n     s = ('0'*(len(h) % 2) + h).zfill(length*2).decode('hex')     return s if endianess == 'big' else s[::-1]  def def encode(ip):     ip_as_integer = int(ipaddress.ipv4address(ip))     ip_as_bytes = to_bytes(ip_as_integer, 4, endianess="big")     ip_base85 = base64.a85encode(ip_as_bytes)     return ip_base  print(encode("192.168.0.1")) 

this fails because base64 doesn't have attribute 'a85encode'.

i found question looking way use base85/ascii85 on python 2. discovered couple of projects available install via pypi. settled on 1 called hackercodecs because project specific encoding/decoding whereas others found offered implementation byproduct of necessity

from __future__ import unicode_literals import ipaddress hackercodecs import ascii85_encode  def encode(ip):     return ascii85_encode(ipaddress.ip_address(ip).packed)[0]  print(encode("192.168.0.1")) 

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• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hackercodecs
• https://github.com/jdukes/hackercodecs