Use sys.stdout.buffer to write vault bytes to stdout on py3 (#23760)

* Use sys.stdout.buffer to write vault bytes to stdout on py3

We need sys.stdout.buffer on py3 so we can write bytes to it since the plaintext
of the vaulted object could be anything/binary/etc

Before, attempting to write bytes to stdout on py3 would cause:

  TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes
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Adrian Likins 8 years ago committed by GitHub
parent 80327d9d47
commit e0a7105c2d

@ -533,19 +533,36 @@ class VaultEditor:
# TODO: add docstrings for arg types since this code is picky about that
def write_data(self, data, filename, shred=True):
"""write data to given path
"""Write the data bytes to given path
:arg data: the encrypted and hexlified data as a utf-8 byte string
This is used to write a byte string to a file or stdout. It is used for
writing the results of vault encryption or decryption. It is used for
saving the ciphertext after encryption and it is also used for saving the
plaintext after decrypting a vault. The type of the 'data' arg should be bytes,
since in the plaintext case, the original contents can be of any text encoding
or arbitrary binary data.
When used to write the result of vault encryption, the val of the 'data' arg
should be a utf-8 encoded byte string and not a text typ and not a text type..
When used to write the result of vault decryption, the val of the 'data' arg
should be a byte string and not a text type.
:arg data: the byte string (bytes) data
:arg filename: filename to save 'data' to.
:arg shred: if shred==True, make sure that the original data is first shredded so
that is cannot be recovered.
:arg shred: if shred==True, make sure that the original data is first shredded so that is cannot be recovered.
:returns: None
"""
# FIXME: do we need this now? data_bytes should always be a utf-8 byte string
b_file_data = to_bytes(data, errors='strict')
# get a ref to either sys.stdout.buffer for py3 or plain old sys.stdout for py2
# We need sys.stdout.buffer on py3 so we can write bytes to it since the plaintext
# of the vaulted object could be anything/binary/etc
output = getattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer', sys.stdout)
if filename == '-':
file_data = to_text(b_file_data, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict', nonstring='strict')
sys.stdout.write(file_data)
output.write(b_file_data)
else:
if os.path.isfile(filename):
if shred:

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