Ethan, On Friday, 2019-12-20 07:41:51 -0800, you wrote:
> ... > In Python 3 `sys.stdout` is a character interface, not bytes. Does that mean that with Python 3 "Tarfile" is no longer able to write the "tar" file to a pipe? Or is there now another way to write to a pipe? And if that new way also worked with Python 2, it would be even better ... :-) > There are a couple solutions to the Python 3 aspect of the problem here: > > https://stackoverflow.com/q/908331/208880 Using "sys.stdout.buffer" seems to work in Python 3 (at least with my current rather trivial test case) but does not work in Python 2. Quest- ion: what is the cheapest way to retrieve the Python version the script is executing in? Sincerely, Rainer -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list