Hi all,
I just found a problem in the xreadlines method/module when used with
codecs.open: the codec specified in the open does not seem to be taken into
account by xreadlines which also returns byte-strings instead of unicode
strings.
For example, if a file foo.txt contains some text encoded in latin1:
>>> import codecs
>>> f = codecs.open('foo.txt', 'r', 'utf-8', 'replace')
>>> [l for l in f.xreadlines()]
['\xe9\xe0\xe7\xf9\n']
But:
>>> import codecs
>>> f = codecs.open('foo.txt', 'r', 'utf-8', 'replace')
>>> f.readlines()
[u'\ufffd\ufffd']
The characters in latin1 are correctly "dumped" with readlines, but are still
in latin1 encoding in byte-strings with xreadlines.
I tested with Python 2.1 and 2.3 on Linux and Windows: same result (I haven't
Python 2.4 installed here)
Can anybody confirm the problem? Is this a bug? I searched this usegroup and
the known Python bugs, but the problem did not seem to be reported yet.
TIA
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'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17;8(%,5.Z65\'*9--56l7+-'])"
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