diff -r 3ecddf168f1f Objects/bytearrayobject.c
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c	Tue Nov 29 00:53:09 2011 +0100
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c	Wed Nov 30 00:53:40 2011 +0100
@@ -2732,20 +2732,7 @@
 static PyObject *
 bytearray_reduce(PyByteArrayObject *self)
 {
-    PyObject *latin1, *dict;
-    if (self->ob_bytes)
-#ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
-        latin1 = PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1(self->ob_bytes,
-                                        Py_SIZE(self), NULL);
-#else
-        latin1 = PyString_FromStringAndSize(self->ob_bytes, Py_SIZE(self));
-#endif
-    else
-#ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
-        latin1 = PyUnicode_FromString("");
-#else
-        latin1 = PyString_FromString("");
-#endif
+    PyObject *dict;
 
     dict = PyObject_GetAttrString((PyObject *)self, "__dict__");
     if (dict == NULL) {
@@ -2754,7 +2741,11 @@
         Py_INCREF(dict);
     }
 
-    return Py_BuildValue("(O(Ns)N)", Py_TYPE(self), latin1, "latin-1", dict);
+    if(self->ob_bytes) {
+        return Py_BuildValue("(O(s#)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,