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)
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source.close()
dest.close()
In an attempt to move my Python scripts from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6 I
Ethan,
On Friday, 2019-12-20 07:41:51 -0800, you wrote:
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> In Python 3 `sys.stdout` is a character interface, not bytes.
Does that mean that with Python 3 "Tarfile" is no longer able to write
the "tar" file to a pipe? Or is there now another way to write to a
pipe? And if that new
Chris,
On Saturday, 2019-12-21 06:45:24 +1100, you wrote:
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> This construct can be simplified down to:
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> stdout = getattr(sys.stdout, "buffer", sys.stdout)
Nice! And with my admittedly trivial test case it correctly works under
both, Python 2 and Python 3.
Now I'll do some more serious
