New submission from Dmitry Dvoinikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This quote from base64.py:
---
bytes_types = (bytes, bytearray) # Types acceptable as binary data
...
def encodestring(s):
"""Encode a string into multiple lines of base-64 data.
Argument and return value are bytes.
"""
if not isinstance(s, bytes_types):
raise TypeError("expected bytes, not %s" % s.__class__.__name__)
...
---
shows that encodestring method won't accept str for an argument, only
bytes. Perhaps this is by design, but then wouldn't it make sense to
change the name of the method ?
Anyway, this behavior clashes in (the least I know) xmlrpc.client, line
1168 when basic authentication is present:
---
auth = base64.encodestring(urllib.parse.unquote(auth))
---
because unquote() returns str, not bytes.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 71513
nosy: ddvoinikov
severity: normal
status: open
title: base64.encodestring does not actually accept strings
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0
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