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-rw-r--r--Lib/_pyio.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_io.py11
-rw-r--r--Modules/_io/_iomodule.c3
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index ba0b0a2..0f182d4 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def open(file, mode="r", buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None,
raise ValueError("can't have read/write/append mode at once")
if not (creating or reading or writing or appending):
raise ValueError("must have exactly one of read/write/append mode")
- if binary and encoding is not None and encoding != "locale":
+ if binary and encoding is not None:
raise ValueError("binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument")
if binary and errors is not None:
raise ValueError("binary mode doesn't take an errors argument")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index 6a9ce39..c731302 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -531,17 +531,6 @@ class IOTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertRaises(OSError, obj.truncate)
self.assertRaises(OSError, obj.truncate, 0)
- def test_open_binmode_encoding(self):
- """open() raises ValueError when encoding is specified in bin mode"""
- self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.open, os_helper.TESTFN,
- "wb", encoding="utf-8")
-
- # encoding=None and encoding="locale" is allowed.
- with self.open(os_helper.TESTFN, "wb", encoding=None):
- pass
- with self.open(os_helper.TESTFN, "wb", encoding="locale"):
- pass
-
def test_open_handles_NUL_chars(self):
fn_with_NUL = 'foo\0bar'
self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.open, fn_with_NUL, 'w')
diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index c627ca2..652c2ce 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -346,8 +346,7 @@ _io_open_impl(PyObject *module, PyObject *file, const char *mode,
goto error;
}
- if (binary && encoding != NULL
- && strcmp(encoding, "locale") != 0) {
+ if (binary && encoding != NULL) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument");
goto error;