cPickle.dumps differs from Pickle.dumps; looks like a bug.

[Victor Kryukov]

Hello list,

I've found the following strange behavior of cPickle. Do you think
it's a bug, or is it by design?

Best regards,
Victor.

from pickle import dumps
from cPickle import dumps as cdumps

print dumps('1001799')==dumps(str(1001799))
print cdumps('1001799')==cdumps(str(1001799))

outputs

True
False


vicbook:~ victor$ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit()
vicbook:~ victor$ uname -a
Darwin vicbook 8.9.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00
PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386