[Python-Dev] sys.intern should work on bytes

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:14:37 +0200,
Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> a écrit :
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> On 20/09/13 14:04, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > What would you be the use case of interned bytes objets?
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> Performance and memory. Pickle sizes (my particular issue now).

sys.intern is an internal interpreter optimization and should be
orthogonal to pickling. If pickle can't detect already-seen bytes
object, then you may file an improvement request on the bug tracker.

Regards

Antoine.