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-rw-r--r--Lib/_compat_pickle.py7
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/_compat_pickle.py b/Lib/_compat_pickle.py
index 6e39d4aee3..c0e0443cf2 100644
--- a/Lib/_compat_pickle.py
+++ b/Lib/_compat_pickle.py
@@ -177,6 +177,13 @@ IMPORT_MAPPING.update({
'DocXMLRPCServer': 'xmlrpc.server',
'SimpleHTTPServer': 'http.server',
'CGIHTTPServer': 'http.server',
+ # For compatibility with broken pickles saved in old Python 3 versions
+ 'UserDict': 'collections',
+ 'UserList': 'collections',
+ 'UserString': 'collections',
+ 'whichdb': 'dbm',
+ 'StringIO': 'io',
+ 'cStringIO': 'io',
})
REVERSE_IMPORT_MAPPING.update({
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d3edac7552..f5a2afcbe8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created
+ in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).
+
- Issue #26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid().
- Issue #25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.