[issue17840] base64_codec uses assert for runtime validity checks

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 07.07.2013 16:31, Alex Henderson wrote:
> Having discussed this with Ezio, I think the better option might be to raise ValueError instead - if someone is expecting to be able to silently recover from errors they won't be able to, and should find out about this sooner rather than later.
> I'll upload an updated patch shortly.

+1

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