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?

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Answer 1

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)

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

You can do what timgeb did or you can do

row = str(649)