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dumps() and loads() work in terms of bytes objects not strings.

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Mark Summerfield 2008-04-21 14:47:45 +00:00
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@ -194,18 +194,18 @@ process more convenient:
.. function:: dumps(obj[, protocol])
Return the pickled representation of the object as a string, instead of writing
it to a file.
Return the pickled representation of the object as a :class:`bytes`
object, instead of writing it to a file.
If the *protocol* parameter is omitted, protocol 3 is used. If *protocol*
is specified as a negative value or :const:`HIGHEST_PROTOCOL`, the highest
protocol version will be used.
.. function:: loads(string)
.. function:: loads(bytes_object)
Read a pickled object hierarchy from a string. Characters in the string past
the pickled object's representation are ignored.
Read a pickled object hierarchy from a :class:`bytes` object.
Bytes past the pickled object's representation are ignored.
The :mod:`pickle` module also defines three exceptions: