On 5 Jun 2012, at 11:18, Moritz Klammler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in Python 3, this is a TypeError:
>
>>>> sys.stdout.write(b"hello, world\n")
>
> At the moment, argparse.FileType.__call__("-") unconditionally returns
> sys.stdout even if mode is binary so writing binary data will fail if
> the user selects to write it to stdout.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the best possible solution but at least the
> following patch to argparse.py would fix the aforementioned problem.
Please post patches to the bug tracker so they don't get lost.
http://bugs.python.org
All the best,
Michael Foord
>
> Moritz
>
>
> 1154c1154,1157
> < return _sys.stdin
> ---
>> if 'b' in self._mode:
>> return _sys.stdin.buffer
>> else:
>> return _sys.stdin
> 1156c1159,1162
> < return _sys.stdout
> ---
>> if 'b' in self._mode:
>> return _sys.stdout.buffer
>> else:
>> return _sys.stdout
>
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