TypeError: expected a character buffer object

Question

I am running into the following error while writing the value into a file. Can you please help me figure out what is the issue here and how to fix it?

row = 649
with open(r'\\loc\dev\Build_ver\build_ver.txt','r+') as f:
    f.write(row)
print row

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "latest_rev.py", line 6, in <module>
    f.write(row)
TypeError: expected a character buffer object

possible duplicate of TypeError: expected a character buffer object - while trying to save integer to textfile — Florian Brucker
– Florian Brucker, Commented May 6, 2015 at 20:41

timgeb · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-26 20:52:06Z

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Assuming you just want to write the string '649' to the file, change row to '649' or issue f.write(str(row)).

answered Jun 26, 2014 at 20:52

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Travis Over a year ago

i.e. write() won't take an int, so cast row to a string.

bruh · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-02 04:19:29Z

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You can do what timgeb did or you can do

row = str(649)

answered Dec 2, 2019 at 4:19

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timgeb · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-12 10:52:24Z

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I had the same error, in my code:

s.translate(table)

The s obj was string. The issue was s.translate was expecting a unicode string. So, the fix was to use:

unicode(s).translate(table)

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answered Jun 2, 2019 at 16:48

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