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Author	lemburg
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, jmillikin, lemburg
Date	2008-04-09.10:03:23
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Message-id	<1207735405.83.0.415384587848.issue2541@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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While that's true for cPickle, it is not for pickle. The pickle protocol itself is defined in terms of the "raw-unicode-escape" codec (see pickle.py). Besides, you cannot assume that the Python interpreter itself is the only use-case for these codecs. The "raw-unicode-escape" codec is well usable for other purposes where you need a compact way of encoding Unicode, especially if you're strings are mostly Latin-1 and only include non-UCS2 code points every now and then. That's also the reason why pickle uses it.

While that's true for cPickle, it is not for pickle. The pickle protocol
itself is defined in terms of the "raw-unicode-escape" codec (see
pickle.py).

Besides, you cannot assume that the Python interpreter itself is the
only use-case for these codecs. The "raw-unicode-escape" codec is well
usable for other purposes where you need a compact way of encoding
Unicode, especially if you're strings are mostly Latin-1 and only
include non-UCS2 code points every now and then. That's also the reason
why pickle uses it.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-09 10:03:26	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.394839 -> 0.39483947 recipients: + lemburg, gvanrossum, georg.brandl, amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, jmillikin
2008-04-09 10:03:25	lemburg	set	spambayes_score: 0.394839 -> 0.394839 messageid: <1207735405.83.0.415384587848.issue2541@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-04-09 10:03:25	lemburg	link	issue2541 messages
2008-04-09 10:03:24	lemburg	create