change to handle py3 changes to byte/string for open().write()

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/QMTest/TestCmd.py b/QMTest/TestCmd.py
index 198f586f..2fba0a08 100644
--- a/QMTest/TestCmd.py
+++ b/QMTest/TestCmd.py
@@ -1731,7 +1731,11 @@ class TestCmd(object):
         file = self.canonicalize(file)
         if mode[0] != 'w':
             raise ValueError("mode must begin with 'w'")
-        open(file, mode).write(content)
+        try:
+            open(file, mode).write(content)
+        except TypeError as e:
+            # python 3 default strings are not bytes, but unicode
+            open(file, mode).write(bytes(content,'utf-8'))
 
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