Processing Text Files in Python 3 - Alyssa Coghlan's Python Notes

Processing Text Files in Python 3¶ A recent discussion on the python-ideas mailing list made it clear that we (i.e. the core Python developers) need to provide some clearer guidance on how to handle text processing tasks that trigger exceptions by default in Python 3, but were previously swept under the rug by Python 2’s blithe assumption that all files are encoded in “latin-1”. While we’ll have s