gh-113028: Correctly memoize str in pickle when escapes added (GH-113436)

This fixes a divergence between the Python and C implementations of pickle
for protocol 0, such that it pickle.py fails to re-use the first pickled
representation of strings involving characters that have to be escaped.

Author: jeff5

Lib/pickle.py

@@ -857,13 +857,13 @@ def save_str(self, obj):
             else:
                 self.write(BINUNICODE + pack("<I", n) + encoded)
         else:
-            obj = obj.replace("\\", "\\u005c")
-            obj = obj.replace("\0", "\\u0000")
-            obj = obj.replace("\n", "\\u000a")
-            obj = obj.replace("\r", "\\u000d")
-            obj = obj.replace("\x1a", "\\u001a")  # EOF on DOS
-            self.write(UNICODE + obj.encode('raw-unicode-escape') +
-                       b'\n')
+            # Escape what raw-unicode-escape doesn't, but memoize the original.
+            tmp = obj.replace("\\", "\\u005c")
+            tmp = tmp.replace("\0", "\\u0000")
+            tmp = tmp.replace("\n", "\\u000a")
+            tmp = tmp.replace("\r", "\\u000d")
+            tmp = tmp.replace("\x1a", "\\u001a")  # EOF on DOS
+            self.write(UNICODE + tmp.encode('raw-unicode-escape') + b'\n')
         self.memoize(obj)
     dispatch[str] = save_str
 

Lib/test/pickletester.py

@@ -1825,6 +1825,14 @@ def test_unicode_high_plane(self):
             t2 = self.loads(p)
             self.assert_is_copy(t, t2)
 
+    def test_unicode_memoization(self):
+        # Repeated str is re-used (even when escapes added).
+        for proto in protocols:
+            for s in '', 'xyz', 'xyz\n', 'x\\yz', 'x\xa1yz\r':
+                p = self.dumps((s, s), proto)
+                s1, s2 = self.loads(p)
+                self.assertIs(s1, s2)
+
     def test_bytes(self):
         for proto in protocols:
             for s in b'', b'xyz', b'xyz'*100:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-23-16-51-17.gh-issue-113028.3Jmdoj.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+When a second reference to a string appears in the input to :mod:`pickle`,
+and the Python implementation is in use,
+we are guaranteed that a single copy gets pickled
+and a single object is shared when reloaded.
+Previously, in protocol 0, when a string contained certain characters
+(e.g. newline) it resulted in duplicate objects.