Expected type 'optional[bytes]' got 'str' instead
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Tue Sep 13 07:37:35 EDT 2016
Daiyue Weng wrote:
> Hi, I have the following piece of code,
>
> rootPath = os.path.abspath(__file__)
>
> rootPath = (rootPath.rsplit('\\', 1)[0]).rsplit('\\', 1)[0]
>
>
> PyCharm inspection gave me warning on argument '\\' of the 2nd rsplit,
>
> Expected type 'optional[bytes]' got 'str' instead
>
>
> If I changed it to,
>
> rootPath = (rootPath.rsplit('\\', 1)[0]).rsplit(b'\\', 1)[0]
>
> Python game me errors,
>
> TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
>
> How to fix it?
Do you use Python 2 or 3?
Is your version the one PyCharm expects and supports? If yes, consider
filing a bug report (for PyCharm, not Python).
You should of course still follow Chris' advice and use os.path to
manipulate file paths.
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