Method _decode_string

Lib/pickle.py:1461–1468

(self, value)

    dispatch[BINFLOAT[0]] = load_binfloat

    def _decode_string(self, value):
        # Used to allow strings from Python 2 to be decoded either as
        # bytes or Unicode strings.  This should be used only with the
        # STRING, BINSTRING and SHORT_BINSTRING opcodes.
        if self.encoding == "bytes":
            return value
        else:
            return value.decode(self.encoding, self.errors)

    def load_string(self):
        data = self.readline()[:-1]