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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

I've committed issue13641-alternative-v1.patch. I really think practicality beats purity here and, furthermore, there's no associated danger (non-ASCII data is rejected both as bytes and str).

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