Problems with "Tarfile.close()"
Dr Rainer Woitok
rainer.woitok at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 07:19:26 EST 2019
Greetings,
One of my Python scripts basically does the following:
source = tarfile.open(name=tar_archive , mode='r|*')
dest = tarfile.open(fileobj=sys.stdout, mode='w|', format=fmt)
.
.
.
source.close()
dest.close()
In an attempt to move my Python scripts from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6 I
ran into the problem that under Python 3.6 the call to "dest.close()"
fails:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../tar_archive.copy", line 137, in <module>
dest.close()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 1742, in close
self.fileobj.close()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/tarfile.py", line 467, in close
self.fileobj.write(self.buf)
TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes
What am I doing wrong? By the way: since on some hosts this script is
running on the transition from Python 2.7 to Python 3.x will not happen
immediately, I need a solution which works with both versions.
Sincerely,
Rainer
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