[issue43510] PEP 597: Implemente encoding="locale" option and EncodingWarning

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

On 31.03.2021 11:30, STINNER Victor wrote:
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> To me, it sounds really weird to accept an encoding when a file is opened in binary mode. open(filename, "rb", encoding="locale") looks like a bug.

Same here.

If encoding is used as an argument and then not used, this is a bug,
not a feature :-)

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nosy: +lemburg

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