From: Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:50:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue 2980: Protocol 0 is not truly restricted to ASCII.
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a1~422
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7d08c7d546354c271046a8a70f6bd4bf1fccac2;p=python

Issue 2980: Protocol 0 is not truly restricted to ASCII.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
index 08b7daa0bc..a1e045d2ba 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ generated by :mod:`pickle`.
 
 There are currently 4 different protocols which can be used for pickling.
 
-* Protocol version 0 is the original ASCII protocol and is backwards compatible
-  with earlier versions of Python.
+* Protocol version 0 is the original human-readable protocol and is
+  backwards compatible with earlier versions of Python.
 
 * Protocol version 1 is the old binary format which is also compatible with
   earlier versions of Python.