[New-bugs-announce] [issue8896] email.encoders.encode_base64 sets payload to bytes, should set to str

[Forest Bond]

New submission from Forest Bond <forest at alittletooquiet.net>:

Ran into this while tackling issue3244.  Encoded payload members should not be bytes.  In the case of base64, we should have an ascii string.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: python-email-encoders-base64-str.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 107055
nosy: forest_atq
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email.encoders.encode_base64 sets payload to bytes, should set to str
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17550/python-email-encoders-base64-str.patch

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