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

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-12-03, Terry Reedy wrote:

> fileinput is an ancient module that predates iterators (and generators) 
> and context managers. Since by 2.7 open files are both context managers 
> and line iterators, you can easily write your own multi-file line 
> iteration that does exactly what you want.  At minimum:
>
> for file in files:
>      with codecs.open(file, errors='ignore') as f
>      # did not look up signature,
>          for line in f:
>              do_stuff(line)
>
> To make this reusable, wrap in 'def filelines(files):' and replace 
> 'do_stuff(line)' with 'yield line'.

I like fileinput because if the file list is empty, it reads from
stdin instead (so I can pipe something else's output into it).
Unfortunately, the fix I got elsewhere in this thread doesn't seem to
work for that!


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