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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. |