STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > If the input to b64decode is a str, just do a encode('ascii') > operation on it and proceed. If that fails, it wasn't valid > Base64 to begin with.
On unicode encode error, should we raise an UnicodeEncodeError or a binascii.Error? And there is also the problem of base64.b64decode() alternate "characters". Should we accept non-ASCII alternate characters? base64.b64decode('01a\xfeb\xffcd', altchars=b'\xfe\xff') For the example, the result depends on the choosen charset: - ASCII (strict): encode input text raise an UnicodeDecodeError - ISO-8859-1 (ignore): works as expected - UTF-8 (strict): unexpected result The only valid choice is ASCII because ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 will reintroduce bytes/character mixture. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4769> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com