base64 decoding issue or bug

[rbrahmaa]

hi,

i am encoding data and sending the same through TCP/IP and then trying to decode the same with base64.b64decode() operations, but for some reason i am not able to decode the data when it contains padding as "==", but the same code works when it contains padding as one character "="

But same data when i try with Java decoders it decodes perfectly in both the cases.

Not able to find the issue exactly, getting exception and terminating my simulator

Is it bug in python ?

  File "C:\Python34\lib\base64.py", line 46, in _bytes_from_decode_data
    "string, not %r" % s.__class__.__name__) from None
TypeError: argument should be a bytes-like object or ASCII string, not 'dict' 

Thanks In advance.