--- a/yml2proc	Fri Feb 15 10:45:57 2019 +0100
+++ b/yml2proc	Mon Sep 23 19:25:58 2019 +0200
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
 
 """\
-YML/YSLT 2 processor version 5.10
-Copyleft (c), 2009-2018 Volker Birk  http://fdik.org/yml/
+YML/YSLT 2 processor version 6.0
+Copyleft (c), 2009-2019 Volker Birk  http://fdik.org/yml/
 
 """
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
             msg = str(msg) + "\n"
         except:
             msg = u(msg) + u"\n"
-    if type(msg) is unicode:
+    if type(msg) is str:
         msg = codecs.encode(msg, sys.stderr.encoding)
     sys.stderr.write(msg)
 
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
         if options.params:
             params = eval(options.params)
             for key, value in params.iteritems():
-                if type(value) != unicode:
+                if type(value) is not str:
                     params[key] = u(value)
         if options.stringparams:
             for key, value in eval(options.stringparams).iteritems():
@@ -203,10 +203,10 @@
     if options.pretty:
         plaintext = etree.tostring(etree.fromstring(rtext), pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True, encoding=options.encoding)
     else:
-        if isinstance(rtext, unicode):
+        if isinstance(rtext, str):
             plaintext = codecs.encode(rtext, options.encoding)
         else:
-            plaintext = str(rtext)
+            plaintext = rtext
 
     try:
         if plaintext[-1] == "\n":
@@ -214,11 +214,13 @@
     except: pass
 
     if options.outputFile and options.outputFile != "-":
-        outfile = open(options.outputFile, "w")
+        outfile = open(options.outputFile, "wb")
         outfile.write(plaintext)
         outfile.close()
     else:
-        print(plaintext)
+        sys.stdout.buffer.write(plaintext)
+        if not options.pretty:
+            print()
 
 except KeyboardInterrupt:
     w("\n")