diff -r 599763461943 Objects/bytearrayobject.c
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c	Tue Nov 29 17:14:27 2011 +0100
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c	Wed Nov 30 00:02:08 2011 +0100
@@ -2730,15 +2730,9 @@
 static PyObject *
 bytearray_reduce(PyByteArrayObject *self)
 {
-    PyObject *latin1, *dict;
+    PyObject *dict;
     _Py_IDENTIFIER(__dict__);
 
-    if (self->ob_bytes)
-        latin1 = PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1(self->ob_bytes,
-                                        Py_SIZE(self), NULL);
-    else
-        latin1 = PyUnicode_FromString("");
-
     dict = _PyObject_GetAttrId((PyObject *)self, &PyId___dict__);
     if (dict == NULL) {
         PyErr_Clear();
@@ -2746,7 +2740,11 @@
         Py_INCREF(dict);
     }
 
-    return Py_BuildValue("(O(Ns)N)", Py_TYPE(self), latin1, "latin-1", dict);
+    if(self->ob_bytes) {
+        return Py_BuildValue("(O(y#)N)", Py_TYPE(self), self->ob_bytes, Py_SIZE(self), dict);
+    } else {
+        return Py_BuildValue("(O()N)", Py_TYPE(self), dict);
+    }
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(sizeof_doc,