Ken G. wrote:
> Receiving the following error from the terminal screen:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "Blood Pressure05Print45.py", line 95, in <module>
> pr.write(totalSystolic)
> TypeError: expected a character buffer object
>
> Portion of strip:
> =================
>
> pr.write (" "), pr.write (pulse), pr.write ("\n")
> totalSystolic = totalSystolic + int(systolic)
> totalDiastolic = totalDiastolic + int(diastolic)
> totalPulse = totalPulse + int(pulse)
> file1.close()
> print
> print totalSystolic, totalDiastolic, totalPulse
>
> # sys.exit()
>
> pr.write(totalSystolic)
> # pr.write(totalDiastolic)
> # pr.write(totalPulse)
>
> ==========================
>
> I know that totalSystolic is 1018, totalDiastolic is 469 and
> totalPulse is 465.
>
> I can not figure out why pr.write won't print out 1018 on paper.
>
> Using Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.5 and using Geany to process the strip.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
Assuming that pr is a file object the write() method accepts only strings.
You are passing an integer. To fix your code you can either convert
explicitly
pr.write(str(totalSystolic))
or implicitly
print >> pr, totalSystolic
(as usual print appends a newline).
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