TypeError: coercing to Unicode:

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Feb 28th, 2009
I am tryingto download a file from the server ,I dont know why i m getting the following error

localFile = open(localFileName, 'wb')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, type found

Any clues..?

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Hm. The only thing I can think of is that your LocalFileName is not valid ASCII.

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