On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:29:51 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Wildman <best_...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> names = array.array("B", '\0' * bytes)
>> TypeError: cannot use a str to initialize an array with typecode 'B'
>
> In Python 2, str is a byte string and you can do that. In Python 3,
> str is a unicode string, and if you want a byte string you have to
> specify that explicitly, like b'foo' instead of 'foo'. I.e.
>
> names = array.array("B", b'\0' * bytes)
>
> should work.
I really appreciate your reply. Your suggestion fixed that
problem, however, a new error appeared. I am doing some
research to try to figure it out but no luck so far.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./ifaces.py", line 33, in <module>
ifs = all_interfaces()
File "./ifaces.py", line 21, in all_interfaces
name = namestr[i:i+16].split('\0', 1)[0]
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
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