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Document that 2.6 pickles of strings turn into pickles of unicode in 3.0 #46577

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brettcannon opened this issue Mar 17, 2008 · 2 comments
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Document that 2.6 pickles of strings turn into pickles of unicode in 3.0 #46577

brettcannon opened this issue Mar 17, 2008 · 2 comments
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BPO 2324
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  • bpo-2307: Decide what to do with bytes/str when transferring pickles between 2.6 and 3.0
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    It turns out that unpickling a string from 2.6 leads to a Unicode string
    in 3.0. That might fail since the encoding was never specified. This
    should be documented probably in both 2.6 and 3.0.

    @brettcannon brettcannon added the docs Documentation in the Doc dir label Mar 17, 2008
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    The issue is different; there is already a bug open for this (bug 2307).

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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