tracking python idle changes:

Steven M. Gava · Steven M. Gava · commit a2bc259dd71d · 2002-04-22T00:42:42.000Z
Provisional fix for writefile() [SF bug # 541730]
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py b/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def writefile(self, filename):
         self.fixlastline()
         try:
             f = open(filename, "w")
-            chars = self.text.get("1.0", "end-1c")
+            chars = str(self.text.get("1.0", "end-1c"))
             f.write(chars)
             f.close()
             ## print "saved to", `filename`
