Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: On 2009-01-21 16:43, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Torsten Bronger <bron...@physik.rwth-aachen.de> added the comment: > > I ran into this problem today when writing python data structures into a > database. Only ASCII is safe in this situation. I understood the > Python docs that protocol 0 was ASCII-only. > > I use pickle+base64 now, however, this makes debugging more difficult.
Databases can handle binary data just fine, so pickle protocol 2 should be better in your situation. If you require ASCII-only data, you can also use pickle protocol 2, zlib and base64 to get a compact version of a serialized Python object. > Anyway, I think that the docs should clearly say that protocol 8 is not > ASCII-only because this is important in the Python world. For example, > I saw this issue because Django makes an implicit unicode() conversion > with my input which fails with non-ASCII. That sounds like an issue with Django - it shouldn't try to convert binary data to Unicode (which is reserved for text data). _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
