encoder: Allow to specify pickle protocol version
There are many pickle protocol versions - 0 to 4. Python2 for example understands only versions 0 - 2. However we currently unconditionally emit opcodes from higher versions, for example STACK_GLOBAL - from version 4 - when encoding a Class, which leads to inability to decode pickles generated by ogórek on Python2. Similarly protocol 0 states that only text opcodes should be used, however we currently unconditionally emit e.g. BININT (from protocol 1) when encoding integers. Changing to always using protocol 0 opcodes would be not good, since many opcodes for efficiently encoding either integers, booleans, unicode etc are available only in protocol versions 2 and 4. For this reason, similarly to Python[1], let's allow users to specify desired pickle protocol when creating Encoder with config. For backward compatibility and common sense the protocol version that plain NewEncoder selects is 2. This commit adds only above-described user interface and testing infrastructure for verifying what was the result of encoding an object at particular protocol version. For now only a few of pickle test vectors are right wrt what the encoder should be or currently generates. Thus in the next patches we'll be step-by-step fixing encoder on this topic. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#pickle.dump
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