Re: [Docutils-develop] write (buffer) error when writing to terminal python3

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2012-10-02, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> wrote:
>> On 2012-10-02, Paul Tremblay wrote:

>> >  I'm on sourceforge. This email comes from Darwin, but I ran the code on
>> > Windows. I removed all the previous versions to make sure and then
>> > downloaded the newest snapshot:

>> > cd docutils
>> > python setup.py install
>> > cd test
>> > rst2xml.py --traceback  data/latin1.txt

>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "c:/Python32/Scripts/rst2xml.py", line 23, in <module>
>> >     publish_cmdline(writer_name='xml', description=description)
>> >   File "c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\docutils\core.py", line 352, in
>> > publish_cmdline
>> >     config_section=config_section, enable_exit_status=enable_exit_status)
>> >   File "c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\docutils\core.py", line 219, in
>> > publish
>> >     output = self.writer.write(self.document, self.destination)
>> >   File "c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\docutils\writers\__init__.py", line
>> > 81, in write
>> >     output = self.destination.write(self.output)
>> >   File "c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\docutils\io.py", line 393, in write
>> >     self.destination.write(data)
>> > TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
>> > Exception ValueError: 'I/O operation on closed file.' in
>> <_io.TextIOWrapper
>> > name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='cp437'> ignored

>> > BUT:

>> > rst2xml.py --output-encoding cp437 data/latin1.txt

>> > gives no error.

How about 

  rst2xml.py --output-encding ascii data/latin1.txt 
  rst2xml.py --output-encding utf8  data/latin1.txt 

Does the locale setting influence the result?

>> > TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

>> was caused by the "wrong" use of binary vs. unicode strings and also
>> http://www.jeetworks.org/node/67 seems to suggest that this "cryptic"
>> message points to such a problem.

Does the same problem also happen with other frontends (rst2html,
rst2latex, ...)

I cannot do any testing, as I don't have access to a windows PC.

Günter