def load_string(self):
n = self._read_long()
s = self._read(n)
if self.python_version[0] >= 3:
# load_string() loads a bytestring, and in Python 3, str and bytes are
# different classes.
s = compat.BytesType(s)
elif not self._keep_bytes:
# In Python 2, load_string is used to load both bytestrings and native
# strings, so we have to specify which we want.
s = compat.native_str(s)
return s
def load_string(self):
n = self._read_long()
s = self._read(n)
if self.python_version[0] >= 3:
# load_string() loads a bytestring, and in Python 3, str and bytes are
# different classes.
s = compat.BytesType(s)
elif not self._keep_bytes:
# In Python 2, load_string is used to load both bytestrings and native
# strings, so we have to specify which we want. We use the
# 'backslashreplace' error mode in order to handle non-utf8
# backslash-escaped string literals correctly.
s = compat.native_str(s, 'backslashreplace')
return s
def test_load_string(self):
self.assertStrictEqual(self.load(b's\4\0\0\0test', (2, 7)), 'test')
self.assertStrictEqual(self.load(b's\4\0\0\0test', (3, 6)),
compat.BytesType(b'test'))