pystl

Wed Aug 17 05:42:04 EDT 2016

On Wednesday 17 August 2016 18:56, Poul Riis wrote:
> I tried the following:
>> from pystl import PySTL
> with PySTL('stl_test.stl') as stl:
> stl.add_triangle((0,0,0),(1,0,0),(0,1,0))
>> I got the following error message:

Ah, bad news I am afraid. That looks like a bug in pystl.
I don't think there is anything you can do about it except:
- make sure you have the most recent version of pystl;
- make sure that it supports the version of Python you are using;
- if so, report it as a bug to the pystl project.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
>"C:/Users/pr/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python35-32/Lib/idlelib/pystl_module_test_1.py",
> line 3, in <module>
> with PySTL('stl_test.stl') as stl:
> File
> "c:\users\pr\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\pystl\pystl.py",
> line 62, in __enter__
> self.write_stl_header()
> File
> "c:\users\pr\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-
packages\pystl\pystl.py",
> line 75, in write_stl_header
> self.f.write(struct.pack("80s", header_str))
> struct.error: argument for 's' must be a bytes object

-- 
Steve