Nick Coghlan added the comment: With issue 17839 fixed, the error from invoking the base64 codec through the method API is now substantially more sensible:
>>> b"ZXhhbXBsZQ==\n".decode("base64_codec") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: decoder did not return a str object (type=bytes) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com