2009/11/7 MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> > Baptiste Lepilleur wrote: > [..] >> Do I need to replace all codecs.open with the built-in open function? If >> so, why does codecs.open still exist? >> >> The documentation says of codecs.open() that "Files are always opened in > binary mode, even if no binary mode was specified", but you've given the > mode as 'rt', so you're asking it to open the file both in text mode > _and_ binary mode. This is the same as in Python 2.6. > > If it works in 2.6 but not in 3.1, perhaps it's just that in 2.6 it > ignores the 't' whereas in 3.1 it complains. >
So I did miss something, but it was in 2.6. Thanks for the clarification. Though, I think the documentation is somewhat confusing in 3.x as it says that it opens the file in binary mode, but the opened file iterator returns str not bytes...
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