# compress.py import gzip, base64 with open("base64.txt", "rb") as f: b64 = base64.b64decode(f.read()) gz = gzip.compress(b64) # print(base64.b64encode(gz).decode()) encoded = base64.b64encode(gz).decode() with open("payload-final.txt", "w") as out_file: out_file.write(encoded)