[issue4329] base64 does not properly handle unicode strings

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

2.6 is, as far as I know, intended to be backwards compatible except for
where it fixes bugs.  Upgrading to 2.6 does (should) not change strings
(type str) to unicode.  Only importing the appropriate __future__ or
upgrading to 3.0 will do that.  I have no idea what Django does.

The 3 lines of code you posted gives exactly the same traceback in my
copy of 2.5 as the one you posted.

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