pickle format question

[Jeff Epler]

Pickle output at least includes "\n" in addition to ASCII 32..126.

I believe that '\x7f' (ascii 127) will not be present in the output:
Strings are dumped in repr-like form, so ASCII 127 will be ouput as a
\x-sequence.  Numbers (floats, ints and longs) are also dumped in
repr-like form, and tuples and lists use just a few printable ASCII
characters in 32..126.

>>> string.printable 
'0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~ \t\n\r\x0b\x0c'
>>> for c in pickle.dumps([(None), {1j:1L}, "\x7f", 1, 1.]):                   
...     if c not in string.printable: raise ValueError, ord(c)
... 
>>>

Jeff
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