title: How to encode flickr short url (base58) in python?
body: <p>How to encode short URLs of Flickr photos? There is no documentation about the <code>base58</code> method on the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html" rel="nofollow">official API page about urls</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I can't find examples in Python that are just a function, there are only complicated classes.</p>