On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominalaser.com> wrote: > Just wondering, why do you split the latter two parts? I would have used > codecs.open() to open the file and define the encoding in a single step. Is > there a downside to this approach? >
Those two steps still happen, even if you achieve them in a single function call. What Steven described is language- and library- independent. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list