From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUwe0-0003CY-8Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:04:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUwdz-00064x-Bx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:04:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUwdz-00061p-6o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:04:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:04:30 -0300 From: Eduardo Habkost Message-ID: <20180618160430.GG7451@localhost.localdomain> References: <20180615220205.6929-1-tamiko@43-1.org> <20180615220205.6929-2-tamiko@43-1.org> <87muvssm2t.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87muvssm2t.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] qapi: open files in binary mode and use explicit decoding/encoding in common.py List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Matthias Maier , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 07:25:14AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Matthias Maier 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()? This wouldn't work in Python 2.7 (where the `open()` builtin doesn't support the `encoding` parameter). io.open(..., encoding='utf-8') should work, though. -- Eduardo