I have a program that I have been trying to rewrite so it will
run on Python 2.7 and 3.4. It has been a pain to say the least.
Thank $DIETY for aliases. Anyway, I got it all working except
for one thing. The program has an embedded icon. It is displayed
in the window's titlebar. The icon is a 16x16 png that has been
base64 encoded using a Linux utility called memencoder. The code
below works perfectly with Python 2.7. The icon data is complete
for anyone that wants to try to run this code:
encoded_icon = """\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=="""
root = Tk()
decoded_icon=base64.decodestring(encoded_icon)
image_icon = Image.open(io.BytesIO(decoded_icon))
icon = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image_icon)
root.call('wm', 'iconphoto', root._w, icon)
app = Window(root)
root.mainloop()
When I run the program with Python 3.4, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/base64.py", line 519, in _input_type_check
m = memoryview(s)
TypeError: memoryview: str object does not have the buffer interface
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./myprogram.py", line 276, in <module>
decoded_icon=base64.decodestring(encoded_icon)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/base64.py", line 561, in decodestring
return decodebytes(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/base64.py", line 553, in decodebytes
_input_type_check(s)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/base64.py", line 522, in _input_type_check
raise TypeError(msg) from err
TypeError: expected bytes-like object, not str
I tried converting the icon string to a byte variable like this:
encoded_icon = bytes("""\
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAMAAAAoLQ9TAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj
(...)
ZGlmeQAyMDE2LTAzLTIxVDE1OjE5OjI3LTA1OjAwe2m2vwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==""")
That give me a different error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./myprogram.py", line 269, in <module>
ZGlmeQAyMDE2LTAzLTIxVDE1OjE5OjI3LTA1OjAwe2m2vwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==""")
TypeError: string argument without an encoding
I'm not sure what that means. I looks like it wants the string
to be encoded but it already is. And why the reference to only
the last line of the string?
I am at a loss here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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