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| author | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2000-06-21 21:21:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2000-06-21 21:21:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 349a3d3a9a4a25a217e2060bcecc10177fa549da (patch) | |
| tree | 73f5aea4b40cc2aa5cb72032e1991e98f0c6a245 /Lib/codecs.py | |
| parent | d468bd3463085b1544a8f09981dc81fd615d2da7 (diff) | |
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Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Made codecs.open() default to 'rb' as file mode.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/codecs.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py index 1a71fab..fbb9824 100644 --- a/Lib/codecs.py +++ b/Lib/codecs.py @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ class StreamRecoder: ### Shortcuts -def open(filename, mode, encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1): +def open(filename, mode='rb', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1): """ Open an encoded file using the given mode and return a wrapped version providing transparent encoding/decoding. @@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ def open(filename, mode, encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1): codecs. Output is also codec dependent and will usually by Unicode as well. + Files are always opened in binary mode, even if no binary mode + was specified. Thisis done to avoid data loss due to encodings + using 8-bit values. The default file mode is 'rb' meaning to + open the file in binary read mode. + encoding specifies the encoding which is to be used for the the file. |