Read text files with a specific encoding? using fileinput?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Jim Correia wrote:

> How can I read a test file off disk and interpret it as using a specific
> encoding? (Such as utf-8, iso-latin-1, etc.)
> 

s = codecs.open("filename", "utf-8").read() does the trick.

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