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Re: Wait... WHAT?

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Wait... WHAT?
Date 2014-02-12 23:36 +0000
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On 12/02/2014 22:14, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> To be pedantic, you can only write *bytes* to files, so you need to
> serialize your lists (or other objects) to strings and then encode
> those to bytes; or skip the string and encode your list/object
> directly to bytes.
>

Really?

 >>> f = open('test.txt', 'w')
 >>> f.write('a string')
8
 >>> f.close()
 >>>

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Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 11:43 -0800
  Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 13:13 -0700
  Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:21 -0800
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 20:38 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 14:35 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 14:39 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 16:14 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 23:36 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 17:01 -0700
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 18:44 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 00:59 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 12:10 +1100
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-12 21:29 -0600
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 14:47 +1100
      Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 09:46 -0800
        Re: Wait... WHAT? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-13 18:25 +0000
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 15:22 -0700
  Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:43 -0800
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 20:56 +0000
      Re: Wait... WHAT? eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 12:59 -0800
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:17 +1100
        Re: Wait... WHAT? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 21:23 +0000
    Re: Wait... WHAT? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-12 23:09 +0000

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