[issue1466065] base64 module ignores non-alphabet characters

[Neil Tallim]

Neil Tallim <red.hamsterx at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'll hold off on uploading new patches until someone makes a decision, then.

It seems like, perhaps, simply amending the documentation would be
sufficient, since this behaviour shouldn't break any valid messages that
might reach this module. At worst, it'll just treat gibberish as valid,
and that's what it's been doing for a decade. (Although the other decode
routines are all strict by comparison)

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