pystl

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 18:56, Poul Riis wrote:

> I tried the following:
> 
> from pystl import PySTL
> with PySTL('stl_test.stl') as stl:
>     stl.add_triangle((0,0,0),(1,0,0),(0,1,0))
> 
> I got the following error message:


Ah, bad news I am afraid. That looks like a bug in pystl.

I don't think there is anything you can do about it except:

- make sure you have the most recent version of pystl;
- make sure that it supports the version of Python you are using;
- if so, report it as a bug to the pystl project.

> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
>   
"C:/Users/pr/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python35-32/Lib/idlelib/pystl_module_test_1.py",
>   line 3, in <module>
>     with PySTL('stl_test.stl') as stl:
>   File
>   "c:\users\pr\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\pystl\pystl.py",
>   line 62, in __enter__
>     self.write_stl_header()
>   File
>   "c:\users\pr\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\pystl\pystl.py",
>   line 75, in write_stl_header
>     self.f.write(struct.pack("80s", header_str))
> struct.error: argument for 's' must be a bytes object



-- 
Steve