etianen/django-reversion — comment on commit 483613dddb2109d72db215eba7d64d297388493d
File: src/reversion/revisions.py line 402
By etianen:

Pardon what? Is this a bug report? I'm a bit confused.

The python serialization format isn't a real serialization format, as it doesn't serialise to a string. Reversion requires the serialisation format to serialise to a UTF-8 string or unicode, so it can be stored in the database.