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sys.stdout.buffer is readonly withon python3.8 and newer

See original GitHub issue

Steps/Code to Reproduce

Run tests with python3.8

__________________________ test_cli_writes_to_stdout ___________________________
test/test_wordcloud_cli.py:165: in test_cli_writes_to_stdout
    sys.stdout.buffer = tmp_image_file.open('wb+')
E   AttributeError: readonly attribute

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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Mic92commented, Dec 29, 2020

We should probably use the redirect_stdout context: docs.python.org/3.8/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.redirect_stdout

do you want to send a PR?

seems to break in a different way 😃

====================================================================================== FAILURES ======================================================================================
_____________________________________________________________________________ test_cli_writes_to_stdout ______________________________________________________________________________
test/test_wordcloud_cli.py:166: in test_cli_writes_to_stdout
    args, text, image_file = cli.parse_args(['--text', str(tmp_text_file)])
wordcloud/wordcloud_cli.py:225: in parse_args
    args = parser.parse_args(arguments)
/nix/store/m7080pw0ryjk0jhljp55rq1hd2qy8gki-python3-3.8.6/lib/python3.8/argparse.py:1768: in parse_args
    args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
/nix/store/m7080pw0ryjk0jhljp55rq1hd2qy8gki-python3-3.8.6/lib/python3.8/argparse.py:1800: in parse_known_args
    namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
/nix/store/m7080pw0ryjk0jhljp55rq1hd2qy8gki-python3-3.8.6/lib/python3.8/argparse.py:2031: in _parse_known_args
    self._get_value(action, action.default))
/nix/store/m7080pw0ryjk0jhljp55rq1hd2qy8gki-python3-3.8.6/lib/python3.8/argparse.py:2422: in _get_value
    result = type_func(arg_string)
wordcloud/wordcloud_cli.py:57: in __call__
    return sys.stdout.buffer if 'b' in self._mode else sys.stdout
E   AttributeError: '_io.BufferedRandom' object has no attribute 'buffer'

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Mic92commented, Dec 30, 2020

works now: https://github.com/amueller/word_cloud/pull/616

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