Bug? string_referencing

[kfollesdal]

Things to check first

• I have searched the existing issues and didn't find my bug already reported there

• I have checked that my bug is still present in the latest release

cbor2 version

5.6.5

Python version

3.13.1

What happened?

If I serialize with string_referencing= True

{"timestamp": datetime(2025,2,11), "a1": "abc", "a": "abc"}

and then deserialize then I get wrong result. Notice that 'a' have wrong value should be 'abc' but get '2025-02-11T00:00:00Z'

{'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2025, 2, 11, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'a1': 'abc', 'a': '2025-02-11T00:00:00Z'}

How can we reproduce the bug?

import cbor2
from datetime import datetime, timezone

data = {"timestamp": datetime(2025,2,11), "a1": "abc", "a": "abc"}
des = cbor2.loads(cbor2.dumps(data, timezone=timezone.utc, string_referencing= True))

assert des == data, f"Deserialzied {des} is != to orginal data {data}"