Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] TypeError

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OK. I figured it out. Sorry for my beginner questions :-)

The solution is, of course, to do the encoding explicitly for the strings I
want to write using str.encode(encoding='utf-8')

/Andreas

mån 3 dec. 2018 kl 19:19 skrev Andreas Kågedal <an...@ka...>:

> OK. I figured out that it worked if I opened the file in binary mode
> ('wb'). But that made it more problematic to do what I intended, that is
> add some html before the generated stuff. Something along the below. This
> does not work, since it complaints that "TypeError: a bytes-like object is
> required, not 'str'":
>
>         fd_html = open(htmlPath, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
>         fd_html.write('\n'.join([
>             '<!DOCTYPE html>',
>             '<html>',
>             '<head>',
>             ' <meta charset="utf-8">',
>             ' <title>My Title</title>\n',
>             ' <link rel="stylesheet" href="%s">\n' % "../my.css",
>             '</head>\n'
>             ]))
>
>         markdown.markdownFromFile(input=mdPath,
>                                   output=fd_html,
>                                   encoding='utf-8',
>
> extensions=['markdown.extensions.tables', 'markdown.extensions.def_list',
>
> 'markdown.extensions.footnotes', 'markdown.extensions.fenced_code',
>
> 'markdown.extensions.codehilite', 'markdown.extensions.attr_list']
>                                   )
>         fd_html.close()
>
> I admit that I am a beginner with python and python-markdown, so I realize
> I might be doing beginner mistakes. Do you have a proposal for how I should
> do the above?
>
> /Andreas
>
> mån 3 dec. 2018 kl 17:46 skrev Andreas Kågedal <an...@ka...>:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am probably doing something fundamentally wrong. I get a 'TypeError:
>> write() argument must be str, not bytes' message when I use
>> the markdown.markdownFromFile method when with an output file which I have
>> already opened for writing:
>>
>>         fd_html = open(htmlPath, 'w', encoding='utf-8')
>>
>>         markdown.markdownFromFile(input=mdPath,
>>                                   output=fd_html,
>>                                   encoding='utf-8',
>>
>> extensions=['markdown.extensions.tables', 'markdown.extensions.def_list',
>>
>> 'markdown.extensions.footnotes', 'markdown.extensions.fenced_code',
>>
>> 'markdown.extensions.codehilite', 'markdown.extensions.attr_list']
>>                                   )
>>         fd_html.close()
>>
>>   If I let markdown.markdownFromFile open it instead it works fine:
>>
>>         markdown.markdownFromFile(input=mdPath,
>>                                   output=htmlPath  ,
>>                                   encoding='utf-8',
>>
>> extensions=['markdown.extensions.tables', 'markdown.extensions.def_list',
>>
>> 'markdown.extensions.footnotes', 'markdown.extensions.fenced_code',
>>
>> 'markdown.extensions.codehilite', 'markdown.extensions.attr_list']
>>                                   )
>>
>> The reason I want to open it myself if that i need to insert some more
>> html before the stuff generated by markdown.markdownFromFile.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> /Andreas
>>
>