commit 3bfc65a25ba2e010ef12db0cff006c2cbbeb18f9
author Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> Tue Dec 13 13:08:09 2011 -0500
committer Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> Tue Dec 13 13:08:09 2011 -0500
tree 48d1cd0accf5405ab51196dee2f68551fd9e9175
parent 7b7e39a61f0c784252f94eeaae8ee44a44968a6f

Issue #13505: Make pickling of bytes object compatible with Python 2.

Initial patch by sbt.

Lib/pickle.py

diff --git a/Lib/pickle.py b/Lib/pickle.py
index 1f45f37..d10ac776 100644
--- a/Lib/pickle.py
+++ b/Lib/pickle.py
@@ -487,7 +487,11 @@
 
     def save_bytes(self, obj, pack=struct.pack):
         if self.proto < 3:
-            self.save_reduce(bytes, (list(obj),), obj=obj)
+            if len(obj) == 0:
+                self.save_reduce(bytes, (), obj=obj)
+            else:
+                self.save_reduce(codecs.encode,
+                                 (str(obj, 'latin1'), 'latin1'), obj=obj)
             return
         n = len(obj)
         if n < 256: