#34642: File.open to support different encodings
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Reporter: liori | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Core (Other) | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Currently the
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/core/files/base.py#L108
File.open] method has only a single parameter `mode`. `mode` can suggest
opening a file in text mode. Then, Python's `open` will by default attempt
to use the common utf-8 encoding.
It is a common pattern in a code base I work on to use the `utf-8-sig`
encoding for CSV files, as this provides a slight improvement to user
experience when opening the file in Excel. Right now, to create a file in
this encoding using Django's File, we have to open it in a binary mode and
explicitly wrap the file handle in a codec. It would be helpful if, just
like the base Python's `open` function, `File.open` also accepted an
`encoding` parameter, and pass it to the Python's `open` function.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34642>
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