binascii.a2b_base64 ignores padding inside a string #94703
Description
Bug report
The following code should raise binascii.Error but does not:
import binascii
binascii.a2b_base64(b'=aa==')It appears (from looking at the source code) that this is also the case in 3.11, even in strict mode.
Your environment
- CPython versions tested on: 3.10
- Operating system and architecture: Fedora 36, Linux 5.15.52, x86_64