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According to the documentation of base64 (https://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html), > Optional altchars must be a bytes-like object of at least length 2 > (additional characters are ignored) which specifies an alternative alphabet > for the + and / characters. but this explanation is out-dated. Actually this had been correct until the commit `4581ae5fa2450db3f00384e4b2e86654605100d4` was made for cpython in "2007". (Thus, the explanation has been incorrect for about 15 years.) The current implementation requires the length of `altchars` to be exactly two, as explicitly written in the comment: > Optional altchars should be a byte string of length 2 which specifies an > alternative alphabet for the '+' and '/' characters. and the corresponding assertion is: > assert len(altchars) == 2, repr(altchars) ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 411967 nosy: docs@python, qp3839 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: base64 documentation is out-dated; altchars has to have the exact length of 2. versions: Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46559> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
