From 205e75bb629408d850efd6659c87ba1f8512b44b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:05:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #25913: Leading <~ is optional now in
 base64.a85decode() with adobe=True. Patch by Swati Jaiswal.

---
 Lib/base64.py           | 13 +++++++++----
 Lib/test/test_base64.py |  3 +--
 Misc/NEWS               |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/base64.py b/Lib/base64.py
index e2c597b0ca6..adaec1de61b 100755
--- a/Lib/base64.py
+++ b/Lib/base64.py
@@ -367,10 +367,15 @@ def a85decode(b, *, foldspaces=False, adobe=False, ignorechars=b' \t\n\r\v'):
     """
     b = _bytes_from_decode_data(b)
     if adobe:
-        if not (b.startswith(_A85START) and b.endswith(_A85END)):
-            raise ValueError("Ascii85 encoded byte sequences must be bracketed "
-                             "by {!r} and {!r}".format(_A85START, _A85END))
-        b = b[2:-2] # Strip off start/end markers
+        if not b.endswith(_A85END):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Ascii85 encoded byte sequences must end "
+                "with {!r}".format(_A85END)
+                )
+        if b.startswith(_A85START):
+            b = b[2:-2]  # Strip off start/end markers
+        else:
+            b = b[:-2]
     #
     # We have to go through this stepwise, so as to ignore spaces and handle
     # special short sequences
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_base64.py b/Lib/test/test_base64.py
index 9b853a854b3..4f86aaa0c0e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_base64.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_base64.py
@@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ class BaseXYTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             eq(base64.a85decode(data, adobe=False), res, data)
             eq(base64.a85decode(data.decode("ascii"), adobe=False), res, data)
             eq(base64.a85decode(b'<~' + data + b'~>', adobe=True), res, data)
+            eq(base64.a85decode(data + b'~>', adobe=True), res, data)
             eq(base64.a85decode('<~%s~>' % data.decode("ascii"), adobe=True),
                res, data)
 
@@ -584,8 +585,6 @@ class BaseXYTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                                       b"malformed", adobe=True)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, base64.a85decode,
                                       b"<~still malformed", adobe=True)
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, base64.a85decode,
-                                      b"also malformed~>", adobe=True)
 
         # With adobe=False (the default), Adobe framing markers are disallowed
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, base64.a85decode,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c47ca608257..fd4ca59277c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #25913: Leading ``<~`` is optional now in base64.a85decode() with
+  adobe=True.  Patch by Swati Jaiswal.
+
 - Issue #26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader.
 
 - Issue #26367: importlib.__import__() raises SystemError like