From c565266416f69f7d1e93ae9e2157b9e1c25b9258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Black <steveb@stevenblack.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:59:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Making it work in Python3.

---
 updateHostsFile.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index 15de680e8..cff6fe561 100644
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -292,9 +292,12 @@ def removeDupsAndExcl(mergeFile):
         os.makedirs(outputPath)
 
     # Another mode is required to read and write the file in Python 3
-    finalFile = open(os.path.join(outputPath, 'hosts'), 'r+')
-    mergeFile.seek(0) # reset file pointer
+    if Python3:
+        finalFile = open(os.path.join(outputPath, 'hosts'), 'w+b')
+    else:
+        finalFile = open(os.path.join(outputPath, 'hosts'), 'w+')
 
+    mergeFile.seek(0) # reset file pointer
     hostnames = set()
     hostnames.add("localhost")
     hostnames.add("localhost.localdomain")