Pickle translation

[Skip Montanaro]

    William> When I start the daemon that does all the work with
    William> python1.5.2, it loads the pickle fine.  When I try to start it
    William> with python2.1 I get this:

    William> Traceback (most recent call last):
    William>   File "bin/momd", line 83, in ?
    William>     kserv = load(f)
    William> ValueError: invalid \x escape

Interpretation of \x escapes was tightened up in 2.0 I believe.  In versions
earlier than 2.0 '\xyy' is interpreted as the four-character sequence:

    \ x y y

In 2.0 and 2.1 the ValueError you see is raised because "yy" can't be
interpreted as a hex number.

I'm not sure what the solution is.  Someone with more pickle/string/
internals knowledge will probably have some ideas.

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