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