Hi there,
Found a way to solve it, and thought I'd share in case others search on
this topic.
Replace the str(...) below with str(...).encode(), so that it looks like
this:
open('test.csv', 'wb').write(str(db(db.student).select()).encode())
Regards,
Chris
On Monday, 3 September 2018 22:53:11 UTC+8, Chris_I wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Just started learning web2py a few days ago, and am really enjoying it!
>
> Working through the chapter on DAL in the Book, I noticed I got an error
> when doing this:
>
> open('test.csv', 'wb').write(str(db(db.student).select()))
>
>
> The message I get is:
>
> TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
>
>
> It occurs in:
>
>
> File "mypath/web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/base.py", line 844, in
> export_to_csv_file
>
> ofile.write('TABLE %s\r\n' % table)
>
>
>
> The select() returns 5 perfectly normal-looking rows.
>
>
> Am I overlooking something obvious?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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