Alexandre Vassalotti <alexan...@peadrop.com> added the comment: I think we are kind of stuck here. I might need to rely on some clever hack to generate the desired str object in 2.7 without breaking the bytes support in 3.3 and without changing 2.7 itself.
One *dirty* trick I am thinking about would be to use something like array.tostring() to construct the byte string. from array import array class bytes: def __reduce__(self): return (array.tostring, (array('B', self),)) Of course, this doesn't work because pickle doesn't method pickling. But, maybe someone can figure out a way around this... I don't know. Also, this is a bit annoying to fix since we changed the semantic meaning of the STRING opcodes in 3.x---i.e., it now represents a unicode string instead of a byte string. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13505> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com