New submission from Shai Berger: At least on posix systems, os.write says it takes a string, but in fact it barfs on strings -- it needs bytes.
$ python Python 3.3.1 (default, May 6 2013, 16:18:33) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> print(os.write.__doc__) write(fd, string) -> byteswritten Write a string to a file descriptor. >>> os.write(1, "hello") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface >>> os.write(1, b"hello") hello5 >>> ---------- messages: 189535 nosy: shai priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: os.write.__doc__ is misleading type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18009> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
