New submission from Jason R. Coombs: In Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst, the docs state this about opening a file:
Normally, files are opened in :dfn:`text mode`, that means, you read and write strings from and to the file, which are encoded in a specific encoding (the default being UTF-8). That statement is directly contradicted by the docs for open (Doc/library/functions.rst) which indicate: In text mode, if encoding is not specified the encoding used is platform dependent: locale.getpreferredencoding(False) is called to get the current locale encoding. The implementation matches the latter indication. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, IO messages: 247433 nosy: docs@python, jason.coombs priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Input and Output tutorial erroneously references default encoding UTF-8 versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24729> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
