Reputation:
Usually one comes across this problem in python3.0 while attempting a split() method on a bytes type object.
TypeError: Type str does'nt support the buffer API
This issue can be resolved by using the split method after decoding the bytes type object.
However, I find the error message rather ambiguous. Am I missing some underlying concept or do you think the message is ambiguous too?(If more people think so, maybe we could ask for a fix)
Upvotes: 4
Views: 372
Reputation: 881457
Just forget the existence of totally-obsolete, zero-reasons-to-keep-it-around 3.0, upgrade to 3.1 instead, and splitting bytes is just fine:
>>> x = bytes(b'ciao bella')
>>> x.split()
[b'ciao', b'bella']
Upvotes: 9