[issue13641] decoding functions in the base64 module could accept unicode strings

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> However, accepting bytes or string and returning bytes is not an
> obviously good idea, and IMO at least merits some discussion.

Why? "a" in "a2b" means ASCII, and unicode is as valid a container for ASCII text as bytes is.

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