OK, it turns out I had to tweak the parsing minimally for Python3:
1) Substrings such as st[5] no longer work (returns an ascii number),
instead st[5:6] selects one character
2) Replacements need to specified as bytes: s.replace('R','*') change
to s.replace(b'R',b'*')
So I think this problem is
On 2010-11-03, Gnarlodious wrote:
> Under Python 3, subprocess.check_output returns a bytestring that
> doesn't parse. Since the CLI program (written in the 1990's) will
> never send Unicode, is there a way to downconvert the bytestring into
> type str so as to emulate Py2.6 behavior?
str() will
> Under Python 3, subprocess.check_output returns a bytestring that
> doesn't parse. Since the CLI program (written in the 1990's) will
> never send Unicode, is there a way to downconvert the bytestring into
> type str so as to emulate Py2.6 behavior?
What do you mean by "that doesn't parse"? Retu
