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I am attempting to pipe something to a subprocess using the following line:
p.communicate("insert into egg values ('egg');");
TypeError: must be bytes or buffer, not str
How can I convert the string to a buffer?
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To convert, or cast, a string to an integer in Python, you use the int() built-in function. The function takes in as a parameter the initial string you want to convert, and returns the integer equivalent of the value you passed. The general syntax looks something like this: int("str") .
In Python an integer can be converted into a string using the built-in str() function. The str() function takes in any python data type and converts it into a string.
We can convert numbers to strings through using the str() method. We'll pass either a number or a variable into the parentheses of the method and then that numeric value will be converted into a string value.
Use the built-in function repr() to convert normal strings into raw strings. The string returned by repr() has ' at the beginning and the end. Using slices, you can get the string equivalent to the raw string.
The correct answer is:
p.communicate(b"insert into egg values ('egg');");
Note the leading b, telling you that it's a string of bytes, not a string of unicode characters. Also, if you are reading this from a file:
value = open('thefile', 'rt').read()
p.communicate(value);
The change that to:
value = open('thefile', 'rb').read()
p.communicate(value);
Again, note the 'b'.
Now if your value is a string you get from an API that only returns strings no matter what, then you need to encode it.
p.communicate(value.encode('latin-1');
Latin-1, because unlike ASCII it supports all 256 bytes. But that said, having binary data in unicode is asking for trouble. It's better if you can make it binary from the start.
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