diff --git a/Lib/_pydatetime.py b/Lib/_pydatetime.py
index db4ea8d30c7064..41f3cb6cf87e78 100644
--- a/Lib/_pydatetime.py
+++ b/Lib/_pydatetime.py
@@ -360,14 +360,20 @@ def _parse_isoformat_date(dtstr):
     # see the comment on Modules/_datetimemodule.c:_find_isoformat_datetime_separator
     if len(dtstr) not in (7, 8, 10):
         raise ValueError("Invalid isoformat string")
-    year = int(dtstr[0:4])
+    def _read(s, n):
+        # Require exactly n ASCII digits, as the C parse_digits() does.
+        if len(s) != n or not all(map(_is_ascii_digit, s)):
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid isoformat string: {dtstr!r}")
+        return int(s)
+
+    year = _read(dtstr[0:4], 4)
     has_sep = dtstr[4] == '-'
 
     pos = 4 + has_sep
     if dtstr[pos:pos + 1] == "W":
         # YYYY-?Www-?D?
         pos += 1
-        weekno = int(dtstr[pos:pos + 2])
+        weekno = _read(dtstr[pos:pos + 2], 2)
         pos += 2
 
         dayno = 1
@@ -377,17 +383,17 @@ def _parse_isoformat_date(dtstr):
 
             pos += has_sep
 
-            dayno = int(dtstr[pos:pos + 1])
+            dayno = _read(dtstr[pos:pos + 1], 1)
 
         return list(_isoweek_to_gregorian(year, weekno, dayno))
     else:
-        month = int(dtstr[pos:pos + 2])
+        month = _read(dtstr[pos:pos + 2], 2)
         pos += 2
         if (dtstr[pos:pos + 1] == "-") != has_sep:
             raise ValueError("Inconsistent use of dash separator")
 
         pos += has_sep
-        day = int(dtstr[pos:pos + 2])
+        day = _read(dtstr[pos:pos + 2], 2)
 
         return [year, month, day]
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
index 28c3ab2605c45d..079611165da009 100644
--- a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
+++ b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py
@@ -2106,6 +2106,16 @@ def test_fromisoformat_fails(self):
             '10000-W25-1',      # Invalid year
             '2020-W25-0',       # Invalid day-of-week
             '2020-W25-8',       # Invalid day-of-week
+            # gh-152204: each fixed-width field must be exactly N ASCII digits
+            '2020+12',          # '+' accepted in a basic-format field
+            '2020 12',          # space accepted in a basic-format field
+            '+020-06-15',       # leading sign in the year
+            '202012+9',         # '+' in the day field
+            '2020-W 5',         # space in the week day-of-week field
+            '2020061',          # 7 chars: day slice reads a 1-character tail
+            '2020123',          # 7 chars: day slice reads a 1-character tail
+            '9999121',          # 7 chars: day slice reads a 1-character tail
+            '2020-W2',          # 1-digit week number
             '٢025-03-09'        # Unicode characters
             '2009\ud80002\ud80028',     # Separators are surrogate codepoints
         ]
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-25-14-05-00.gh-issue-152204.k9Qm3v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-25-14-05-00.gh-issue-152204.k9Qm3v.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a0fcaeadfa45ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-06-25-14-05-00.gh-issue-152204.k9Qm3v.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Fix the pure-Python implementation of :meth:`datetime.date.fromisoformat`
+silently mis-parsing some malformed ISO 8601 basic-format dates (for example
+``'2020+12'`` or ``'2020061'``).  Each fixed-width field is now required to be
+exactly *N* ASCII digits before conversion, matching the C implementation,
+which already rejected these inputs.