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Bug in example code for Embedding page in Boost.Python tutorial

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1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, python
Domain
documentation

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Open the Boost.Python embedding tutorial at the URL in the issue and inspect the example line that assigns exec("hello = file('hello.txt', 'w')\n"). Confirm the example uses the Python 3-compatible open call described in the report. Done when the tutorial example no longer raises the reported error on Python 3.

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Description

Hi all,

on page https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/python/doc/html/tutorial/tutorial/embedding.html there is a bug in the example code.

The line
object ignored = exec("hello = file('hello.txt', 'w')\n"
will cause an error_already_set exception (using Python 3.7 on Windows 10).

The line should read
object ignored = exec("hello = open('hello.txt', 'w+')\n"

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