[IronPython] Portable use of pickle.dumps()

[Michael Foord]

Robert Smallshire wrote:
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>> Is this a theoretical problem at this stage or an actual problem?
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> Its an actual problem with SQLiteParameter.Value from the SQLite ADO.NET
> provider.  I think our original CPython code is a bit sloppy with respect to
> the distinction between text strings and byte arrays, so I'll probably need
> to tighten things up on both sides.
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> Would you agree tha using unicode() and bytes() everywhere and avoiding
> str() gives code that has the same meaning in Python 2.6, IronPython 2.6 and
> Python 3.0?  Do you think this would be a good guideline to follow until we
> can leave Python 2.x behind?
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In Python 2.6 isn't bytes just an alias for str?

IronPython 2.6 may treat it slightly differently however...

On the CPython side I would definitely store text as Unicode as any 
problems you have treating strings as binary data (or vice versa) should 
become obvious a lot sooner.

All the best,

Michael

> Many thanks,
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> Rob
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