[Python-Dev] open(): set the default encoding to 'utf-8' in Python 3.3?

[Tres Seaver]

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On 06/28/2011 12:52 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> 
>> How about a more radical change: have open() in Py3 default to
>> opening the file in binary mode, if no encoding is given (even
>> if the mode doesn't include 'b') ?
> 
> +1.
> 
>> That'll make it compatible to the Py2 world again and avoid
>> all the encoding guessing.
> 
> Yep.

+1 from me, as well:  "in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation
sto guess."


Tres.
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