Remove base64.encodestring() and base64.decodestring(), aliases
deprecated since Python 3.1: use base64.encodebytes() and
base64.decodebytes() instead.
Allow developers to not have to either test on N Python versions or
looked through multiple versions of the docs to know whether they can
easily update.
* There are only two base-64 alphabets defined by the RFCs, not three
* Due to the internal translation, plus (+) and slash (/) are never discarded
* standard_ and urlsafe_b64decode() discard characters as well
Also update the doc strings to clarify data types, based on revision
92760d2edc9e, correct the exception raised by b16decode(), and correct the
parameter name for the base-85 functions.
This mostly affected the encodebytes and decodebytes function
(which are used by base64_codec)
Also added a test to ensure all bytes-bytes codecs can handle
memoryview input and tests for handling of multidimensional
and non-bytes format input in the modern base64 API.
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.