The bytes/string issu was a red herring: with pickle.load(open('27.bench', 'b')), I get the same stack trace as from command line pybench invocation.


>>> pickle.load(open('27.bench', 'rb'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k-commit/Lib/pickle.py", line 1321, in load
    encoding=encoding, errors=errors).load()
  File "/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k-commit/Lib/pickle.py", line 830, in load
    dispatch[key[0]](self)
  File "/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k-commit/Lib/pickle.py", line 1055, in load_inst
    klass = self.find_class(module, name)
  File "/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k-commit/Lib/pickle.py", line 1115, in find_class
    __import__(module, level=0)
  File "/Users/sasha/Work/python-svn/py3k-commit/Tools/pybench/Unicode.py", line 17
    s = unicode(u''.join(map(str,range(100))))
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax