Neil Tallim <red.hamst...@gmail.com> added the comment: It isn't written that only MIME may ignore such content. The key terms there are 'may' and 'explicitly states otherwise'.
If the documentation is clear, then all future application developers will know to check for validity using a regular expression like '^[A-Za-z0-9+/\r\n]+={0,2}$'. Any existing applications in which validity matters should already have a similar workaround. While I do agree that standards are always good and that workarounds are bad, Guido does have a very valid point: "changing it to insist on valid input would break some use cases", and I think we already missed the 2.x -> 3.x window where that would have been acceptable. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1466065> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com