#1466065: add validate option to base64.b64decode
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.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_base64.py b/Lib/test/test_base64.py
index 49edf39..228a0fb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_base64.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_base64.py
@@ -138,9 +138,25 @@
eq(base64.urlsafe_b64decode(b'01a-b_cd'), b'\xd3V\xbeo\xf7\x1d')
self.assertRaises(TypeError, base64.urlsafe_b64decode, "")
- def test_b64decode_error(self):
+ def test_b64decode_padding_error(self):
self.assertRaises(binascii.Error, base64.b64decode, b'abc')
+ def test_b64decode_invalid_chars(self):
+ # issue 1466065: Test some invalid characters.
+ tests = ((b'%3d==', b'\xdd'),
+ (b'$3d==', b'\xdd'),
+ (b'[==', b''),
+ (b'YW]3=', b'am'),
+ (b'3{d==', b'\xdd'),
+ (b'3d}==', b'\xdd'),
+ (b'@@', b''),
+ (b'!', b''),
+ (b'YWJj\nYWI=', b'abcab'))
+ for bstr, res in tests:
+ self.assertEquals(base64.b64decode(bstr), res)
+ with self.assertRaises(binascii.Error):
+ base64.b64decode(bstr, validate=True)
+
def test_b32encode(self):
eq = self.assertEqual
eq(base64.b32encode(b''), b'')