Pickle: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' [duplicate]

Answer 1

I keep coming back to this stack overflow link, so I'm posting the real answer for the next time I come looking for it:

PickleDB is messed up and needs to be fixed.

Line 201 of pickledb.py

From:

simplejson.dump(self.db, open(self.loco, 'wb'))

to:

simplejson.dump(self.db, open(self.loco, 'wt'))

Problem solved forever.