base64 anomaly

[Bernhard Herzog]

eichin at metacarta.com writes:

> >>> base64.decodestring(base64.encodestring(""))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring
>     return binascii.a2b_base64(s)
> binascii.Error: Cannot decode empty input

This seems to be fixed in current CVS Python:

Python 2.3a2+ (#1, Feb 28 2003, 11:27:37) 
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import base64
>>> base64.decodestring(base64.encodestring(""))
''
>>> 


   Berhard

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