Read text files with a specific encoding? using fileinput?

[Michael Hudson]

Jim Correia <noone at nowhere.com.invalid> writes:

> 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.)

help(codecs.open), I think.

> If I have a script which processes files on the command line, using 
> fileinput, can I do the same?

Not sure about that one.

Cheers,
M.

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