This issue was identified on peterjc/thapbi-pict#627 where continuous integration tests using cutadapt to generate test inputs started to fail WITHOUT relevant code changes. i.e. Something changes in ...

#!/usr/bin/python # pprint-json.py import json import sys import pprint # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5203105/printing-a-utf-8-encoded-string # and http ...

Which program is pickling and why? That seems like a very strange thing to do in this situation. The only time to pickle something is if you need to represent a non-string object on disk, but Python ...