In the Importer storage backend, the repickler code never really worked with
ZODB 5 (use of protocol > 1), and now the test does not pass anymore.

The other issues caused by ZODB commit 12ee41c47310156027a674932df34b60de86ba36
are fixed:

  TypeError: list indices must be integers, not binary

  ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3

Although not necessary as long as we don't support Python 3,
this commit also replaces `str` by `bytes` in a few places.