[Python-Dev] base64 module (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Apr 7 03:03:05 CEST 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Sanghyeon Seo wrote:

base64 module documentation for b64decode function says, "TypeError is raised if s were incorrectly padded or if there are non-alphabet characters present in the string." But this doesn't seem to be the case. Testcase: import base64 base64.b64decode('%') Since % is a non-alphabet character, this should raise TypeError (btw, shouldn't this be ValueError instead?), but Python 2.4.3 silently ignores.

Please submit a bug report on SourceForge and report back the ID.

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