Joaquin
Joaquin replied to the topic 'meteostationWEB no longer working due to python 3.8 on Ubuntu 20.04' in the forum. 4 years ago

Gonzothegreat wrote: One that I cannot fix (yet)...

<code> File "/home/heidenrod/meteostationWEB/indiclient.py", line 1986, in __init__
self.socket.send("<getProperties version='1.5'/>")
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
Starting MinMax</code>


You are sending a string through the socket. In py3 you must send bytes.
Try (just add a ‘b’):

self.socket.send(b"<getProperties version='1.5'/>")

This works for literals, for other objects you need to .encode() them.

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