Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using

tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.

8 files changed, 54 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index dbd01c4..6a96609 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -101,14 +101,16 @@ function it uses to do this is available:
     If no encoding is specified, then the default of ``'utf-8'`` will be
     returned.
 
-    :func:`detect_encoding` is useful for robustly reading Python source files.
-    A common pattern for this follows::
+    Use :func:`open` to open Python source files: it uses
+    :func:`detect_encoding` to detect the file encoding.
 
-        def read_python_source(file_name):
-            with open(file_name, "rb") as fp:
-                encoding = tokenize.detect_encoding(fp.readline)[0]
-            with open(file_name, "r", encoding=encoding) as fp:
-                return fp.read()
+
+.. function:: open(filename)
+
+   Open a file in read only mode using the encoding detected by
+   :func:`detect_encoding`.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
 
 Example of a script rewriter that transforms float literals into Decimal
@@ -153,4 +155,3 @@ objects::
                 result.append((toknum, tokval))
         return untokenize(result).decode('utf-8')
 
-
diff --git a/Lib/linecache.py b/Lib/linecache.py
index 974b1d9..c3f2c3f 100644
--- a/Lib/linecache.py
+++ b/Lib/linecache.py
@@ -123,9 +123,7 @@ def updatecache(filename, module_globals=None):
         else:
             return []
     try:
-        with open(fullname, 'rb') as fp:
-            coding, line = tokenize.detect_encoding(fp.readline)
-        with open(fullname, 'r', encoding=coding) as fp:
+        with tokenize.open(fullname) as fp:
             lines = fp.readlines()
     except IOError:
         return []
diff --git a/Lib/py_compile.py b/Lib/py_compile.py
index 111893e..d241434 100644
--- a/Lib/py_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/py_compile.py
@@ -104,9 +104,7 @@ def compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None, doraise=False):
     byte-compile all installed files (or all files in selected
     directories).
     """
-    with open(file, "rb") as f:
-        encoding = tokenize.detect_encoding(f.readline)[0]
-    with open(file, encoding=encoding) as f:
+    with tokenize.open(file) as f:
         try:
             timestamp = int(os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime)
         except AttributeError:
diff --git a/Lib/tabnanny.py b/Lib/tabnanny.py
index 7053fd9..a4d4ef0 100755
--- a/Lib/tabnanny.py
+++ b/Lib/tabnanny.py
@@ -93,11 +93,8 @@ def check(file):
                 check(fullname)
         return
 
-    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
-        encoding, lines = tokenize.detect_encoding(f.readline)
-
     try:
-        f = open(file, encoding=encoding)
+        f = tokenize.open(file)
     except IOError as msg:
         errprint("%r: I/O Error: %s" % (file, msg))
         return
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
index 10e59b9..f98efcb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tokenize.py
@@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ Non-ascii identifiers
 
 from test import support
 from tokenize import (tokenize, _tokenize, untokenize, NUMBER, NAME, OP,
-                     STRING, ENDMARKER, tok_name, detect_encoding)
+                     STRING, ENDMARKER, tok_name, detect_encoding,
+                     open as tokenize_open)
 from io import BytesIO
 from unittest import TestCase
 import os, sys, glob
@@ -857,6 +858,26 @@ class TestDetectEncoding(TestCase):
         readline = self.get_readline((b'# coding: bad\n',))
         self.assertRaises(SyntaxError, detect_encoding, readline)
 
+    def test_open(self):
+        filename = support.TESTFN + '.py'
+        self.addCleanup(support.unlink, filename)
+
+        # test coding cookie
+        for encoding in ('iso-8859-15', 'utf-8'):
+            with open(filename, 'w', encoding=encoding) as fp:
+                print("# coding: %s" % encoding, file=fp)
+                print("print('euro:\u20ac')", file=fp)
+            with tokenize_open(filename) as fp:
+                assert fp.encoding == encoding
+                assert fp.mode == 'r'
+
+        # test BOM (no coding cookie)
+        with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8-sig') as fp:
+            print("print('euro:\u20ac')", file=fp)
+        with tokenize_open(filename) as fp:
+            assert fp.encoding == 'utf-8-sig'
+            assert fp.mode == 'r'
+
 class TestTokenize(TestCase):
 
     def test_tokenize(self):
diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index eb58831..7745412 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import sys
 from token import *
 from codecs import lookup, BOM_UTF8
 import collections
+from io import TextIOWrapper
 cookie_re = re.compile("coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)")
 
 import token
@@ -335,6 +336,20 @@ def detect_encoding(readline):
     return default, [first, second]
 
 
+_builtin_open = open
+
+def open(filename):
+    """Open a file in read only mode using the encoding detected by
+    detect_encoding().
+    """
+    buffer = _builtin_open(filename, 'rb')
+    encoding, lines = detect_encoding(buffer.readline)
+    buffer.seek(0)
+    text = TextIOWrapper(buffer, encoding, line_buffering=True)
+    text.mode = 'r'
+    return text
+
+
 def tokenize(readline):
     """
     The tokenize() generator requires one argment, readline, which
diff --git a/Lib/trace.py b/Lib/trace.py
index 8ea4b89..b50aa02 100644
--- a/Lib/trace.py
+++ b/Lib/trace.py
@@ -432,10 +432,9 @@ def find_strings(filename, encoding=None):
 def find_executable_linenos(filename):
     """Return dict where keys are line numbers in the line number table."""
     try:
-        with io.FileIO(filename, 'r') as file:
-            encoding, lines = tokenize.detect_encoding(file.readline)
-        with open(filename, "r", encoding=encoding) as f:
+        with tokenize.open(filename) as f:
             prog = f.read()
+            encoding = f.encoding
     except IOError as err:
         print(("Not printing coverage data for %r: %s"
                               % (filename, err)), file=sys.stderr)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5586118..48f952e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10335: Add tokenize.open(), detect the file encoding using
+  tokenize.detect_encoding() and open it in read only mode.
+
 - Issue #10321: Added support for binary data to smtplib.SMTP.sendmail,
   and a new method send_message to send an email.message.Message object.