Pycurl and io.StringIO - pycurl.error: (23, 'Failed writing body)

Question

I\'m porting ebay sdk to python3 and I\'ve stumbled upon the following issue.

I\'m using pycurl to send some HTTP requests. Here is how I configure it:

Answer 1

I believe the problem is that pycurl no longer functions with StringIO like desired. A solution is to use io.BytesIO instead. You can then get information written into the buffer and decode it into a string.

Using BytesIO with pycurl instead of StringIO:

e = io.BytesIO()
c.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, e.write)

Decoding byte information from the BytesIO object:

htmlString = e.getvalue().decode('UTF-8')

You can use any type of decoding you want, but this should give you a string object you can parse.

Hope this helps people using Python 3.