xopen(..., encoding='utf-8') option?

[markusdr]

With the regular open() function, I typically specify the encoding, e.g.,

open(fname, 'r', encoding='utf-8')

Looks like with xopen it's not possible? Would that cause problems when reading UTF-8 encoded text files?

[rhpvorderman]

Depends on what platform you are at. I believe it will choose the platform default. Usually that's utf-8, but if it's not I think you could run into problems.

xopen wraps all binary steams in a TextIOWrapper when the mode is "r", so I guess it should be doable to pass through the encoding argument.

We can do this with *args, **kwargs so any arguments get passed trough, including encoding.

Thanks for mentioning this!

[rhpvorderman]

@markusdr This is pending in #81

[marcelm]

#81 has been merged and I have just uploaded v1.3.0 to PyPI with this change, so let’s close this!