Hi, Is there a (use case) difference between codecs.open and io.open? What is the difference? A small difference that I just discovered is that codecs.open(somefile).read() returns a bytestring if no encoding is specified*), but a unicode string if an encoding is specified. io.open always returns a unicode string.
*) I had never tried that before. I would have expected that encoding would default to e.g locale.getpreferredencoding(). Thank you! Regards, Albert-Jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
