You can specify the format of the template file yourself and declare placeholders in the file.
You can use a combination of the following files or just use one of them alone.
- introduction: base64 encode the source file and then replace the placeholders in the template file with the encoded content
- how-to-use: python encode_then_rewrite_template.py input.txt output.txt
- introduction: extracts the contents of () and writes it to a new file using base64 decoding
- how-to-use: python extract_and_decode_template.py output.txt new_output.txt