New submission from Alex Earl: As you can see below, the code in fileobject.c is removing the U from the UTF-8 (or UNICODE) when it tries to replace a U for universal line ending mode.
Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:03:49) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> f = open('newfile.txt', 'rt+,ccs=UNICODE') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: Invalid mode ('rbt+,ccs=NICODE') >>> f = open('newfile.txt', 'rt+,ccs=UTF-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: Invalid mode ('rbt+,ccs=TF-8') It looks to be an issue with the code around: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ee879c0ffa11/Objects/fileobject.c#l283 ---------- components: IO, Windows messages: 230705 nosy: Alex.Earl, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: On Windows, if you try and use ccs=UTF-8 (or other variants) the U is removed type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22802> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com