Eryk Sun added the comment: You want to hack a fake text mode, which won't do new-line translation or treat ^Z (0x1a) as EOF like a normal 2.x text mode on Windows. Can't you just use io.TextIOWrapper(gzip.open(filename))? This reads Unicode.
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