[New-bugs-announce] [issue38971] codecs.open leaks file descriptor when invalid encoding is passed

[Brock Mendel]

New submission from Brock Mendel <jbrockmendel at gmail.com>:

xref https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/30034

codecs.open does `file = open(...)` before validating the encoding kwarg, leaving the open file behind if that validation raises.

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messages: 357811
nosy: Brock Mendel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: codecs.open leaks file descriptor when invalid encoding is passed

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