On 04/06/18 16:57, Jeremy Ogorzalek wrote: > Not sure this is how this is done, but here goes. > > When I try to run the code in the SGP4 module, I get the following error, > and it originates in the io.py script:
I have no idea what you are talking about and do not know what the SGP4 or io.py files are. However... > File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\sgp4\io.py", line 131, > in twoline2rv > assert line.startswith('1 ') > > TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str > > But as far as I can tell in the documentation online (multiple sources) the > first argument of startswith() is indeed supposed to be a string! It depends on which startswith() method you are looking at. If line is a string you are correct but... if line is a bytes object then its startwith() method expects a bytes argument. So I suspect that line is of type bytes(*) and you must convert it to a string or use a bytes first argument. (*)You can check by adding a print("type of line: ", type(line)) in your code. HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor