sbt <shibt...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> I suggest that array.array be changed in Python 2 to allow unicode strings 
> as a typecode or that pickle detects array.array being called and fixes 
> the call.

Interestingly, py3 does understand arrays pickled by py2.  This appears to be 
because py2 pickles str using BINSTRING or SHORT_BINSTRING which will unpickle 
as str on py2 and py3.  py3 pickles str using BINUNICODE which will unpickle as 
unicode on py2 and str on py3.

I think it would be better to fix this in py3 if possible, but that does not 
look easy: modifying array.__reduce_ex__ alone would not be enough.

The only thing I can think of is for py3 to grow a "_binstr" type which only 
supports ascii strings and is special-cased by pickle to be pickled using 
BINSTRING.  Then array.__reduce_ex__ could be something like:

  def __reduce_ex__(self, protocol):
    if protocol <= 2:
      return array.array, (_binstr(self.typecode), list(self))
    else:
      ...

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