Message94898
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
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> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> The docs say::
> Files are always opened in binary mode, even if no binary mode was
> specified. This is done to avoid data loss due to encodings using
> 8-bit values. This means that no automatic conversion of '\n' is done
> on reading and writing.
>
> But this does not match the code of codecs.open()::
> if encoding is not None and \
> 'b' not in mode:
> # Force opening of the file in binary mode
> mode = mode + 'b'
>
> When the encoding is None, the file is opened in text mode.
> Marc-Andre, what do you think? is it a documentation bug instead?
Agreed, it's a documentation bug. If no encoding is specified,
codecs.open() works just like the standard open() (except for
the default value of mode, but that's documented).
The idea was to provide a drop-in replacement for open() - with
the added encoding parameter support.
Perhaps the default mode should have been 'r' to match the
regular open() - I guess it's too late to change that, though. |
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2009-11-04 18:18:08 | lemburg | set | recipients:
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2009-11-04 18:18:06 | lemburg | link | issue7262 messages |
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