Marshal Obj is String or Binary?

[casevh at comcast.net]

Try...

>>> for i in bytes: print ord(i)

or

>>> len(bytes)

What you see isn't always what you have. Your database is capable of
storing \ x 0 0 characters, but your string contains a single byte of
value zero. When Python displays the string representation to you, it
escapes the values so they can be displayed.

casevh