[reportlab-users] Puzzling Error

[Andy Robinson]

> Hmm, wouldn't it be better to just test for the needed file 
> methods and if 
> they aren't there assume it is a file name?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> if hasattr(filename, 'write'):
>     myfile = 0
>     f = filename # A file-like ob
> else:
>     myfile = 1
>     f = open(str(filename), 'wb')
> 
I think this is better.  Maybe someone wants a genuine
Unicode filename one day.


> another pattern I have used for getting around supporting 
> non-unicode pythons 
> is something like:

That's good, we could work with that.

I'll try to work these in; we're aiming for a release next week.

- Andy