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Author ncoghlan
Recipients cvrebert, eli.bendersky, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2012-02-12.04:51:57
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No point to adding a new keyword arg - if people are going to do something like that, they may as well learn to use "errors" and "encoding" properly.

Adding open_ascii() would be an acknowledgement that "basically ASCII, but maybe with a few other bytes that just need to round-trip correctly" is a common enough use case to special case (in particular, it's convenient to have algorithms than can operate on both utf-8 and all 8-bit extended ASCII variants, including latin-1).

The downside to using surrogateescape is that if you ever *do* feed it a file in a non-ASCII compatible encoding and then perform ASCII-based manipulations, you'll get mojibake instead of an early UnicodeDecodeError. (i.e. exactly the same problem this kind of thing can cause in Python 2)
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