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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/codecs.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/codecs.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py index a70ed20f2bc..6b028adb1d2 100644 --- a/Lib/codecs.py +++ b/Lib/codecs.py @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ class StreamRecoder: ### Shortcuts -def open(filename, mode='r', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1): +def open(filename, mode='r', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=-1): """ Open an encoded file using the given mode and return a wrapped version providing transparent encoding/decoding. @@ -883,7 +883,8 @@ def open(filename, mode='r', encoding=None, errors='strict', buffering=1): encoding error occurs. buffering has the same meaning as for the builtin open() API. - It defaults to line buffered. + It defaults to -1 which means that the default buffer size will + be used. The returned wrapped file object provides an extra attribute .encoding which allows querying the used encoding. This |