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armin
armin

Reputation: 2047

Python3: ftp file upload throws TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

I'm using python 3.4.2 to upload a logfile to an ftp server (I removed the try and with statements for simplicity's sake):

import ftplib

ftp = ftplib.FTP(url)
ftp.login(name, password)
ftp.storlines("STOR " + "mylog.log", open("log/mylog.log"))
ftp.close()

The mylog.log file has a "text/plain; charset=us-ascii" encoding. On my macbook everything works fine. When I execute my little program on a raspberry pi (via ssh), I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ftptest.py", line 7, in <module>
    ftp.storlines("STOR " + "mylog.log", open("log/mylog.log"))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ftplib.py", line 537, in storlines
    if buf[-1] in B_CRLF: buf = buf[:-1]
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API

I guess it's some encoding and/or local settings issue. What am I doing wrong? What is the best practice here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 297

Answers (1)

user94559
user94559

Reputation: 60143

From my reading of http://bugs.python.org/issue6822, I think for Python 3.x, you'll need open("log/mylog.log", "rb").

Upvotes: 1

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