On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, at 00:25 CDT, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Matthias Maier <tam...@43-1.org> writes: > >> This is a different approach to fix the locale dependent encode/decode >> problem in common.py utilizing the binary read/write mode [1,2], and (if >> a python 3 interpreter is used) with explicit decode/encode arguments >> [3]. > > Why can't we simply pass encoding='utf-8' to open()? Because this breaks python-2 compatibility. Best, Matthias
