backports: Explicitly open files in binary modev5.10.34-1

This should fix some problems seen when using python 3.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gentree.py b/gentree.py
index 1fc9dbb1..04d9263d 100755
--- a/gentree.py
+++ b/gentree.py
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ def create_tar_and_gz(tar_name, dir_to_tar):
     tar.add(dir_to_tar, basename)
     tar.close()
 
-    tar_file = open(tar_name, "r")
+    tar_file = open(tar_name, "rb")
 
     gz_file = gzip.GzipFile(tar_name + ".gz", 'wb')
     gz_file.write(tar_file.read())