* Use binascii.a2b_base64 to validate b64decode input.
This change leads to exception messages changes (mostly).
* Added more information to docstring of b64decode
* Added a reference to binascii.a2b_base64 in the docs
Remove base64.encodestring() and base64.decodestring(), aliases
deprecated since Python 3.1: use base64.encodebytes() and
base64.decodebytes() instead.
Allow developers to not have to either test on N Python versions or
looked through multiple versions of the docs to know whether they can
easily update.
* There are only two base-64 alphabets defined by the RFCs, not three
* Due to the internal translation, plus (+) and slash (/) are never discarded
* standard_ and urlsafe_b64decode() discard characters as well
Also update the doc strings to clarify data types, based on revision
92760d2edc9e, correct the exception raised by b16decode(), and correct the
parameter name for the base-85 functions.
base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the
initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to
not waste memory if these modules are not used.
This mostly affected the encodebytes and decodebytes function
(which are used by base64_codec)
Also added a test to ensure all bytes-bytes codecs can handle
memoryview input and tests for handling of multidimensional
and non-bytes format input in the modern base64 API.
Patch by Neil Tallim. This provides a mechanism for module
users to achieve RFC 3548 compliance in the cases where ignoring
non-base64-alphabet input characters is *not* mandated by the RFC that
references RFC 3548.
No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch. The most obvious changes:
- str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
- bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
- PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.
I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.
The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like. Some changes are still on the to-do list.
Change binascii.Error to derive from ValueError
and raise binascii.Error everywhere where values are bad
(why on earth did the old code use TypeError?!?).
and .keys(), .items(), .values() return dict views.
The dict views aren't fully functional yet; in particular, they can't
be compared to sets yet. but they are useful as "iterator wells".
There are still 27 failing unit tests; I expect that many of these
have fairly trivial fixes, but there are so many, I could use help.
There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.
(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)
