Pickling arbitrary character strings on Windows

[Erik Max Francis]

"Nicholas K. Sauter" wrote:

> It would be good to be able to pickle strings containing arbitrary
> ASCII
> characters, for example to encode data at the C level.  But on Windows
> it is impossible to do a binary unpickle of a string that has an
> embedded ASCII 26 (octal 032).

Under Windows, when you see anything like this, or start to see bizarre
games with end-of-line sequences, it means you have the files open in
the wrong mode.  You want the files open (for both reading and writing)
in binary mode, not text.

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