Issue 6523: smtplib exception smtp.connect TypeError encode_plain (original) (raw)

------ SYSTEM INFORMATION ----- module: smtplib system: linux

python3.0 -V Python 3.0.1+

----- TEST CASE PYTHON SOURCE ----- import smtplib smtp = smtplib.SMTP() smtp.connect('mail.myserver.org') smtp.login('myusername', 'mypassword')

----- TEST CASE EXECUTION RESULTS ----- python3.0 testcase.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "testcase.py", line 4, in smtp.login('myusername', 'mypassword') File "/home/kevin/Projects/ftpwatch/smtplib.py", line 580, in login AUTH_PLAIN + " " + encode_plain(user, password)) File "/home/kevin/Projects/ftpwatch/smtplib.py", line 545, in encode_plain return encode_base64("\0%s\0%s" % (user, password)) File "/usr/lib/python3.0/email/base64mime.py", line 96, in body_encode enc = b2a_base64(s[i:i + max_unencoded]).decode("ascii") TypeError: b2a_base64() argument 1 must be bytes or buffer, not str