From 3bfc65a25ba2e010ef12db0cff006c2cbbeb18f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:08:09 -0500
Subject: Issue #13505: Make pickling of bytes object compatible with Python 2.

Initial patch by sbt.
---
 Lib/pickle.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Lib/pickle.py')

diff --git a/Lib/pickle.py b/Lib/pickle.py
index 1f45f37d46..d10ac776cf 100644
--- a/Lib/pickle.py
+++ b/Lib/pickle.py
@@ -487,7 +487,11 @@ class _Pickler:
 
     def save_bytes(self, obj, pack=struct.pack):
         if self.proto < 3:
-            self.save_reduce(bytes, (list(obj),), obj=obj)
+            if len(obj) == 0:
+                self.save_reduce(bytes, (), obj=obj)
+            else:
+                self.save_reduce(codecs.encode,
+                                 (str(obj, 'latin1'), 'latin1'), obj=obj)
             return
         n = len(obj)
         if n < 256:
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