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TypeError: ‘str’ does not support the buffer interface

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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

Why are tar archive formats switching to xz compression to replace bzip2 and what about gzip?

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More and more tar archives use the xz format based on LZMA2 for compression instead of the traditional bzip2(bz2) compression. In fact kernel.org made a late “Good-bye bzip2” announcement, 27th Dec. 2013, indicating kernel sources would from this point on be released in both tar.gz and tar.xz format – and on the main page of the website what’s directly offered is in tar.xz.

How to add/update a file to an existing tar.gz archive?

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Is there a way to add/update a file in a tar.gz archive? Basically, I have an archive which contains a file at /data/data/com.myapp.backup/./files/settings.txt and I’d like to pull that file from the archive (already done) and push it back into the archive once the edit has been done. How can I accomplish this? Is it problematic because of the . in the path?