[issue4329] base64 does not properly handle unicode strings

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

It's not a bug. base64 is a codec to encode *bytes* and characters. 
You have to encode your unicode string to bytes using a charset
 Example (utf-8):
>>> from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
>>> b64encode(u'a\xe9'.encode("utf-8"))
'YcOp'
>>> unicode(b64decode('YcOp'), "utf-8")
u'a\xe9'

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nosy: +haypo
resolution:  -> fixed
status: open -> closed

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