TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' on line 53

[Austin1]

I assume it has something to do with using Python 3.6, but I'm getting the error in the subject line when executing. Stackexchange says we are reading it as a binary and it needs to be read as a ascii. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33054527/python-3-5-typeerror-a-bytes-like-object-is-required-not-str-when-writing-t

I'm not a python developer (or any developer) so I don't know how to fix, but thought someone else might see this and have an interest in tweaking to fix.

[jagman88]

I'm not certain this is the full fix, but following the advice in that link but I tried replacing line 52:

with open(sys.argv[2],'wb') as outputFile:`

with the line

with open(sys.argv[2],'w') as outputFile:

It seems to be that the 'wb' argument was trying to write in bytes, when the link is suggesting we'd rather just write directly in text with 'w'.

[ghost]

Yes, this is an issue with Python major versions. I wrote this with 2.7. Honestly I didn't expect that people would find it that useful, but if it helps I can move 2.7 to its own branch and make master python 3 compatible.

If I recall correctly @jagman88 is right about the open statement needing to change, but there was another issue with reading UTF-8 files with byte-order-marks. It looks like I at some point upgraded to Python 3 but never committed the changes.

I'll add another note when this is resolved.

[ghost]

@jagman88 @Austin1 - I pushed up some changes, but I don't have an RPT file handy to test with. Give it a shot.