Decoding of example fails

[dreua]

$ python3
Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 13 2020, 10:23:39) 
[GCC 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bencode
>>> bencode.decode('d5:title7:Examplee')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/da/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bencode/__init__.py", line 180, in bdecode
    r, l = decode_func[value[0:1]](value, 0)
KeyError: 'd'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/da/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bencode/__init__.py", line 182, in bdecode
    raise BencodeDecodeError("not a valid bencoded string")
bencode.exceptions.BencodeDecodeError: not a valid bencoded string

$ pip3 install --user bencode.py
Requirement already satisfied: bencode.py in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (2.1.0)