id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 12178,Should be able to manually store non-text in the memcached backend,joshuajonah,nobody,"I am using a function that stores gzipped content in the memcached backend. The built in memcached cache.get() runs smart_unicode() on the returned text if it is detected as a string. Gzipped content is qualified as str or uncode via ""if isinstance(val, basestring):"", however there needs to be a way to avoid this in my case. I've attached a simple diff in the form of an optional kwarg that works for me.",,closed,Core (Cache system),dev,,duplicate,gzip,josh@…,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,0,0