REPOST: Re: base64.decodestring gives binascii.error

[Erik Myllymaki]

The '_' and '!' were in the original string that was then encoded, not 
in the resulting encoded string.

Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Erik Myllymaki" <erik at pacific-shores.com> wrote in message
> news:3C2C03CB.7030000 at pacific-shores.com...
> 
>>should base64.decodestring give a binascii.error if it encounters
>>special chars like '_' and '!' ?
>>
> 
> Makes sense to me; after all, such characters should never be
> in a string produced by base64, so the data must have been
> damaged in transit -- raising an exceptions seems appropriate.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 


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