[egenix-users] does mx.Tidy not accept StringIO as outputstream?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Thomas Werschlein wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I try to use a StringIO stream as tidy output stream, but always get
> the following error:
> "outputstream must be a file object or None"
> 
> Just to be sure it's not me: is mx.Tidy.tidy() expecting a _real_ file
> no matter what?

Right. The reason is that tidy itself needs a real FILE*.

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