Hi Peter, >> Are you saying all open() calls in Python that read text files, >> automatically convert UTF-8 content to Unicode in the same manner as the >> following might when using Python 2.6? >> >> codecs.open( fileName, mode='r', encoding='UTF8', ... )
> That's what I meant to say, but it's not actually true. Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like Python 3 has unified the standard library open() function and the codecs.open() into a single function? In other words, would it be accurate to say that in Python 3, there is no longer a need to use codecs.open()? Any idea if the above applies to Python 2.7? Thank you Peter! Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
