[issue2980] Pickle stream for unicode object may contain non-ASCII characters.

[Torsten Bronger]

Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> added the comment:

Well, Django doesn't story binary data at all but wants you to store
image files etc in the file system.  Whether this was a good design
decision, is beyond the scope of this issue.  My points actually are
only these:

a) the docs strongly suggest that protocol 0 is ASCII-only and this
should be clarified (one sentence would be fully sufficient I think)

b) currently, there is no way in the standard lib to serialise data in a
debuggable, ASCII-only format

Probably b) is not important.  *I* want to have it currently but this
doesn't mean much.

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