[issue10970] "string".encode('base64') is not the same as base64.b64encode("string")

[Mahmoud Abdelkader]

Mahmoud Abdelkader <mabdelkader at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks for the clarification Terry. This is indeed not a bug. For reference, the pieces of code I pasted line-wrapped after the 76th character, which was my main source of confusion.

After reading RFC3548, I am now informed that the behavior of string.encode is the correct and expected result, as the documentation per 7.8.3 state that it's MIME 64.

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