getting fileinput to do errors='ignore' or 'replace'?

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-12-03, Adam Funk wrote:

> I'm having trouble with some input files that are almost all proper
> UTF-8 but with a couple of troublesome characters mixed in, which I'd
> like to ignore instead of throwing ValueError.  I've found the
> openhook for the encoding
>
> for line in fileinput.input(options.files, openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("utf-8")):
>     do_stuff(line)
>
> which the documentation describes as "a hook which opens each file
> with codecs.open(), using the given encoding to read the file", but
> I'd like codecs.open() to also have the errors='ignore' or
> errors='replace' effect.  Is it possible to do this?

I forgot to mention: this is for Python 2.7.3 & 2.7.10 (on different
machines).


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