I am working with a bit of code that works ok in Python 2.x (tested fine in 2.5.4 and 2.6.1) but fails in 3.0.1. The code opens a file for binary output to witht the objective to produce a .bmp graphics file. The code below illustrates the first of several like errors when a str object is attempted to be written to the binary file. From what I have seen, this was a fairly common technique prior to 3.0.1 being released so I am assuming the type checking is tighter with the new version. What is the proper way of doing this now, or the work around? Any help appreciated. -- Bill
the code: ----------------------------------- self.out=open(filename,"wb") self.out.write("BM") # magic number This the is the error output from Python: ------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "py_mandel.py", line 19, in <module> my_bmp=kohn_bmp("out.bmp",image_width,image_height,3) File "C:\Python30\py_kohn_bmp.py", line 47, in __init__ self.out.write("BM") # magic number File "C:\Python30\lib\io.py", line 1038, in write raise TypeError("can't write str to binary stream") TypeError: can't write str to binary stream -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list