TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

[diggy128]

Trying to replace a string in files inside a directory I get the following error:
Dry run: No files will be changed Using 1 patterns: 'xxx' -> 'yyy' Found 6617 files in: .eclipse/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/repren", line 534, in <module> dry_run=options.dry_run) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 409, in rewrite_files rewrite_file(path, patterns, do_renames=do_renames, do_contents=do_contents, by_line=by_line, dry_run=dry_run) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 375, in rewrite_file counts = transform_file(transform, path, dest_path, by_line=by_line, dry_run=dry_run) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 339, in transform_file counts = transform_stream(transform, stream_in, stream_out, by_line=by_line) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 307, in transform_stream (new_line, new_counts) = transform(line) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 374, in <lambda> transform = lambda contents: multi_replace(contents, patterns, source_name=path) File "/usr/bin/repren", line 209, in multi_replace for match in regex.finditer(input_str): TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

The exact command given is: repren --from xxx --to yyy --dry-run .eclipse/

My guess is that this happens because there are binary files in the directory.

Could there be an option to skip binary files?

[jlevy]

Ah. I'm guessing you're running on Python 3. This is (still for now) a Python 2.7 tool. Does running with Python 2.7 work?

[diggy128]

In OpenSUSE Leap 15 the shebang directive is #!/usr/bin/python3, so I'm guessing this is why it fails. I don't know where that comes from though.

[jlevy]

Probably it was installed via "pip" for python3. Re-install with a python2 pip and you'll be fine. Closing but adding #19 for future.

[jamesray1]

sudo python3.7 get-pip.py7;
sudo pip2.7 install repren # add a hyphen with pip-2.7 if not using Ubuntu or Arch Linux / Manjaro.

Added the above to #20.