TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

Question

plaintext = input(\"Please enter the text you want to compress\")
filename = input(\"Please enter the desired filename\")
         


        

Answer 1

For Python 3.x you can convert your text to raw bytes through:

bytes("my data", "encoding")

For example:

bytes("attack at dawn", "utf-8")

The object returned will work with outfile.write.