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Author	methane
Recipients	methane
Date	2021-04-05.12:46:50
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https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/c8e5eb904e12010d2302364e1037c24a30f5e241/Lib/netrc.py#L29 Can we change the encoding="utf-8" and errors="replace"? IMHO, comments are source of UnicodeDecodeError. So we can open file with binary mode and skip comments without decoding it. But we need to decode non-comment lines lines with some encoding anyway.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/c8e5eb904e12010d2302364e1037c24a30f5e241/Lib/netrc.py#L29

Can we change the encoding="utf-8" and errors="replace"?

IMHO, comments are source of UnicodeDecodeError. So we can open file with binary mode and skip comments without decoding it.
But we need to decode non-comment lines lines with some encoding anyway.

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