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12179	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		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0