binascii_a2b_base64: Properly return an empty string if the input was all
invalid, rather than returning a string of random garbage of the
estimated result length. Closes SF patch #703471 by Hye-Shik Chang.
Will backport to 2.2-maint (consider it done.)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_binascii.py b/Lib/test/test_binascii.py
index f1f8b33..2764c3c 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_binascii.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_binascii.py
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
res = res + b
verify(res == testdata)
+# Test base64 with just invalid characters, which should return
+# empty strings. TBD: shouldn't it raise an exception instead ?
+verify(binascii.a2b_base64(fillers) == '')
+
# Test uu
print "uu test"
MAX_UU = 45