New submission from R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>: The documentation for the print function specifies that the input argument is coerced to string. However, if bytes are passed and the file= parameter points to a file open for binary write, the error message produced is:
>>> out = open('temp', 'wb') >>> print(b'abc', file=out) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: write() argument 1 must be bytes or buffer, not str which is, to say the least, confusing, since I clearly passed print a bytes object as argument 1. ---------- components: IO messages: 89490 nosy: r.david.murray priority: low severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: Confusing error message when passing bytes to print with file pointing to a binary file type: behavior versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6304> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com