Guido van Rossum added the comment:

I'm coming at this without much context (I don't recall the original issue)
but IIUC from a security POV, lenient parsing is unsafe -- it could allow
an attacker to modify a cookie (or part of a cookie -- I'm unclear on the
correct terminology here) and that's what we're trying to avoid.

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