'AnsiTerm' object has no attribute 'buffer'

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:01:40 -0800 (PST)
Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> > Well, the way we use sys.stdout is warned about in the Python doc.
> > That is enough for me to want it aligned with the python doc.  
> 
> The real question is why the build procedure thinks it needs to
> output 'bytes' to the terminal,

Easy, to fix make the code work with Python2 and Python 3.

See here:

https://gitlab.com/esr/practical-python-porting/blob/master/polystr-inclusion.py
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/practical-python-porting/

Weird, but no one has done better.

> It can probably be worked around by prefixing the build command with 
> "NOSYNC=1", which disables waf's AnsiTerm hackery.

That worked.  Thanks!  

Something for Eric to add to the INSTALL procedure and to his 'Practical
Python Porting".

RGDS
GARY
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