assume we are writing text with gzip

[htsworkflow.git] / htsworkflow / pipelines / desplit_fastq.py

diff --git a/htsworkflow/pipelines/desplit_fastq.py b/htsworkflow/pipelines/desplit_fastq.py
index c9947a2ef2317b0a05f7c36e966eb152949fc1f3..b6d740c33df351388c21739b28e522a675dea249 100644 (file)
--- a/htsworkflow/pipelines/desplit_fastq.py
+++ b/htsworkflow/pipelines/desplit_fastq.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ def main(cmdline=None):
 
     if opts.output is not None:
         if opts.bzip:
-            output = bz2.BZ2File(opts.output,'w')
+            output = bz2.BZ2File(opts.output, 'wt')
         elif opts.gzip:
-            output = gzip.GzipFile(opts.output, 'w')
+            output = gzip.GzipFile(opts.output, 'wt')
         else:
             output = open(opts.output, 'w')
     else: