Read text files with a specific encoding? using fileinput?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jim> I could write my own replacement for fileinput that did that, but
    Jim> currently the fileinput module does all the opening, so absent an
    Jim> open hook or a way to tell it what encoding to use, I'm not sure
    Jim> that will help.

Sorry, my bad.  I forgot that fileinput is rather unpythonic in its
treatment of files (accepting just names and not file objects, and even
getting the names from an implicit source).

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