Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] qapi: open files in binary mode and use explicit decoding/encoding in common.py

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 07:25:14AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Matthias Maier <address@hidden> 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