Re: Writing to stdout

I think this is almost the right answer Christof, but since PDF is not a textual file format I think the correct way to 
overcome the python3 encode everything is to use the buffer directly eg

sys.stdout.buffer is a binary file

see https://docs.python.org/3.9/glossary.html#term-binary-file


so rob you should use

c = canvas.Canvas(sys.stdout.buffer)



On 28/02/2021 18:40, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> On 28.02.2021 18:55, Rob Allen wrote:
>  > This is what happens when I run it:
>  >
>  > ...
>  > TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes
> 
> 
> This is probably because stdout is expecting text (native strings), but ReportLab sends bytes.
> 
> It may work when replacing sys.stdout with something like TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding='utf8').
> 
> -- Christoph
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