New submission from Nick Coghlan: encodings.base64_codec currently uses "assert errors=='strict'" in a few places, since it doesn't actually support any of the Unicode specific error handling modes.
This should either be discarded entirely (and document that the error handling mode is irrelevant for this codec), or else turned into a real check that raises ValueError if an unsupported error mode is passed in. I have a slight preference for just ignoring the error mode as irrelevant (since this isn't a text encoding in the normal Unicode serialisation-as-bytes sense). ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 187762 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: base64_codec uses assert for runtime validity checks type: behavior versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17840> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
