Writing an integer to a file?!?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> I get the following error:
> >>> f.write(int(time.time()))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: read-only character buffer, int

the error message means "expected a character buffer,
got an integer".  to put it another way, "write" needs a
string, not an integer.

try:

    f.write(str(int(time.time())))

or perhaps:

    f.write("%d" % time.time())

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