TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' when writing to a file in Python3

Question

I\'ve very recently migrated to Py 3.5. This code was working properly in Python 2.7:

with open(fname, \'rb\') as f:
    lines = [x.strip() for x in f.readli         


        

Answer 1

I got this error when I was trying to convert a char (or string) to bytes, the code was something like this with Python 2.7:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print( bytes('ò') )

This is the way of Python 2.7 when dealing with unicode chars.

This won't work with Python 3.6, since bytes require an extra argument for encoding, but this can be little tricky, since different encoding may output different result:

print( bytes('ò', 'iso_8859_1') ) # prints: b'\xf2'
print( bytes('ò', 'utf-8') ) # prints: b'\xc3\xb2'

In my case I had to use iso_8859_1 when encoding bytes in order to solve the issue.

Hope this helps someone.