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| author | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2008-04-21 14:47:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2008-04-21 14:47:45 (GMT) |
| commit | b9e2304c445b04b6199b663ae70315fc115f036f (patch) | |
| tree | d4cc6caaa71e524f51d01d0062e0e9ea8ff8aba4 /Doc | |
| parent | e57950fbfef77f327d79a73955b42e3696ecf9f0 (diff) | |
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dumps() and loads() work in terms of bytes objects not strings.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst index 6c7c1d0..848766f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst @@ -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: |