Difference between open and codecs.open in Python
Since Python 2.6, a good practice is to use io.open(), which also takes an encoding argument, like the now obsolete codecs.open(). In Python 3, io.open is an alias for the open() built-in. So io.open() works in Python 2.6 and all later versions, including Python 3.4. See docs: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/io.html Now, for the original question: when reading … Read more