Marshal Obj is String or Binary?

[Mike]

Thanks everyone.

Why Marshal & not Pickle: Well, Marshal is supposed to be faster. But
then, if I wanted to do the whole repr()-eval() hack, I am already
defeating the purpose by refusing to save bytes as bytes in terms of
both size and speed.

At this point, I am considering one of the following:
- Save my structure as binary data, and reference the file from my db
- Find a clean method of saving bytes into my db

Thanks again,
Mike