Fix #2237 -- make state saving work on py3

Signed-off-by: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
getnikola · Feb 8, 2016 · 9069eba · 9069eba
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diff --git a/nikola/state.py b/nikola/state.py
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ def _read(self):
     def _save(self):
         dname = os.path.dirname(self._path)
         with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=dname, delete=False) as outf:
+            # TODO replace with encoding='utf-8' and mode 'w+' in v8
             tname = outf.name
-            json.dump(self._local.data, outf, sort_keys=True, indent=2)
+            data = json.dumps(self._local.data, sort_keys=True, indent=2)
+            try:
+                outf.write(data)
+            except TypeError:
+                outf.write(data.encode('utf-8'))
         shutil.move(tname, self._path)