[issue38971] codecs.open leaks file descriptor when invalid encoding is passed

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:

Many reasons.

1. It is simpler.
2. We will need a try/except in any case to prevent a leak if an exception be raised by other code following open().
3. It matches the behavior of io.open().

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