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Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file

Date 2011-05-25 16:58 -0700
From Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file
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tkpmep@hotmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the guidance - it was indeed an issue with reading in
> binary vs. text., and I do now succeed in reading the last line,
> except that I now seem unable to split it, as I demonstrate below.
> Here's what I get when I read the last line in text mode using 2.7.1
> and in binary mode using 3.2 respectively under IDLE:
> 
> 3.2
> b'Name\t31/12/2009\t0\t0\t0\r\n'
> 
> under 3.2, with its binary read, I get
>--> x.split('\t')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#26>", line 1, in <module>
>     x.split('\t')
> TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

You are trying to split a bytes object with a str object -- the two are 
not compatible.  Try splitting with the bytes object b'\t'.

~Ethan~

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Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file "tkpmep@hotmail.com" <tkpmep@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-25 12:33 -0700
  Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-25 21:00 +0100
  Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 14:54 -0600
  Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-25 22:52 +0100
    Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file "tkpmep@hotmail.com" <tkpmep@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-25 16:25 -0700
      Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-05-25 16:58 -0700
      Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-26 00:56 +0100
      Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-05-25 17:32 -0700
      Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-26 08:09 +0300
        Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file "tkpmep@hotmail.com" <tkpmep@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-27 12:21 -0700
  Re: Python 3.2 bug? Reading the last line of a file Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 19:06 -0600

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