commit f8fc674f0bc1819a85e64e1f3174b682260adab6
author Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> Mon Jul 09 17:57:13 2012 -0400
committer Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> Mon Jul 09 17:57:13 2012 -0400
tree 97e42dfa9963e0f46560d656ddd046bb4ed5a6e2
parent 9e6bf1a8ee8ea9d7b187763c92cd500bc614fc64

Issue 13532: Allow bytearrays to be written also.

Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
index 3e23e6c..2bf97a5 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
@@ -1265,8 +1265,8 @@
         self.encoding = encoding
 
     def write(self, s):
-        if not isinstance(s, basestring):
-            raise TypeError('must be str, not ' + type(s).__name__)
+        if not isinstance(s, (basestring, bytearray)):
+            raise TypeError('must be string, not ' + type(s).__name__)
         self.shell.write(s, self.tags)
 
     def writelines(self, lines):