TypeError: ‘str’ does not support the buffer interface

plaintext = input(“Please enter the text you want to compress”) filename = input(“Please enter the desired filename”) with gzip.open(filename + “.gz”, “wb”) as outfile: outfile.write(plaintext) The above python code is giving me following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 33, in <module> compress_string() File “C:/Users/Ankur Gupta/Desktop/Python_works/gzip_work1.py”, line 15, in compress_string outfile.write(plaintext) … Read more

Store output of subprocess.Popen call in a string

I’m trying to make a system call in Python and store the output to a string that I can manipulate in the Python program. #!/usr/bin/python import subprocess p2 = subprocess.Popen("ntpq -p") I’ve tried a few things including some of the suggestions here: Retrieving the output of subprocess.call() but without any luck. Answers: Thank you for … Read more