#! /usr/bin/env python3

"""RFC 3548: Base16, Base32, Base64 Data Encodings"""

# Modified 04-Oct-1995 by Jack Jansen to use binascii module
# Modified 30-Dec-2003 by Barry Warsaw to add full RFC 3548 support
# Modified 22-May-2007 by Guido van Rossum to use bytes everywhere

import re
import struct
import binascii


__all__ = ['b64decode']


bytes_types = (bytes, bytearray)  # Types acceptable as binary data

def _bytes_from_decode_data(s):
    if isinstance(s, str):
        try:
            return s.encode('ascii')
#        except UnicodeEncodeError:
        except:
            raise ValueError('string argument should contain only ASCII characters')
    elif isinstance(s, bytes_types):
        return s
    else:
        raise TypeError("argument should be bytes or ASCII string, not %s" % s.__class__.__name__)



def b64decode(s, altchars=None, validate=False):
    """Decode a Base64 encoded byte string.

    s is the byte string to decode.  Optional altchars must be a
    string of length 2 which specifies the alternative alphabet used
    instead of the '+' and '/' characters.

    The decoded string is returned.  A binascii.Error is raised if s is
    incorrectly padded.

    If validate is False (the default), non-base64-alphabet characters are
    discarded prior to the padding check.  If validate is True,
    non-base64-alphabet characters in the input result in a binascii.Error.
    """
    s = _bytes_from_decode_data(s)
    if altchars is not None:
        altchars = _bytes_from_decode_data(altchars)
        assert len(altchars) == 2, repr(altchars)
        s = s.translate(bytes.maketrans(altchars, b'+/'))
    if validate and not re.match(b'^[A-Za-z0-9+/]*={0,2}$', s):
        raise binascii.Error('Non-base64 digit found')
    return binascii.a2b_base64(s)