[issue38241] Pickle with protocol=0 in python 3 does not produce a 'human-readable' format

[Josh Rosenberg]

Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+python at gmail.com> added the comment:

This seems like a bug in pickle; protocol 0 is *defined* to be ASCII compatible. Nothing should encode to a byte above 0x7f. It's not actually supposed to be "human-readable" (since many ASCII bytes aren't printable), so the docs should be changed to describe protocol 0 as ASCII consistently; if this isn't fixed to make it ASCII consistently, "human-readable" is still meaningless and shouldn't be used.

I'm kind of surprised the output from Py3 works on Py2 to be honest.

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