Help converting python one-liner...

[David Bovill]

I'm trying to base64 encode an image and include it into a json file to
post to an api. The python code that accomplishes this is:

image1_data =
base64.b64encode(httpx.get(image1_url).content).decode("utf-8")

When I try to follow the logic in Livecode I get:

put url imageUrl into sImage
put base64Encode (sImage) into base64Image
put textDecode (base64Image, "UTF-8") into encodedImageData

However the api complains that the image is not encoded properly. Adding or
removing the "textDecode" step does not help. Any thoughts?