builtins TypeError must be str not bytes

Question

I ve converted my scripts from Python 2 7 to 3 2  and I have a bug      - - coding  utf-8 - - import time from datetime import date from lxml import etree from collections import OrderedDict    Create the root element page   etree Element  results      Make a new document tree doc   etree ElementTree page     Add the subelements pageElement   etree SubElement page   Country  Tim    Now                                          name  Germany   AnotherParameter    Bye                                         Code  DE                                         Storage  Basic   pageElement   etree SubElement page   City                                          name  Germany                                         Code  PZ                                         Storage  Basic  AnotherParameter    Hello     For multiple multiple attributes  use as shown above    Save to XML file outFile   open  output xml    w   doc write outFile     On the last line  I got this error   builtins TypeError  must be str  not bytes File  C  PythonExamples XmlReportGeneratorExample py   line 29  in  lt module gt    doc write outFile  File  c  Python32 Lib site-packages lxml etree pyd   line 1853  in lxml etree  ElementTree write  src lxml lxml etree c 44355  File  c  Python32 Lib site-packages lxml etree pyd   line 478  in lxml etree  tofilelike  src lxml lxml etree c 90649  File  c  Python32 Lib site-packages lxml etree pyd   line 282  in lxml etree  ExceptionContext  raise if stored  src lxml lxml etree c 7972  File  c  Python32 Lib site-packages lxml etree pyd   line 378  in lxml etree  FilelikeWriter write  src lxml lxml etree c 89527    I ve installed Python 3 2  and I ve installed lxml-2 3 win32-py3 2 exe   On Python 2 7 it works

User · Accepted Answer

The outfile should be in binary mode   outFile   open  output xml    wb

User · Answer

Convert binary file to base64  amp  vice versa  Prove in python 3 5 2  import base64  read file   open   tmp newgalax png    rb   data   read file read    b64   base64 b64encode data   print  b64     Save file decode b64   base64 b64decode b64  out file   open   tmp out newgalax png    wb   out file write decode b64     Test in python 3 5 2

[python] builtins.TypeError: must be str, not bytes

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