[Tutor] codecs.open vs io.open

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/03/2015 10:31, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there in a (use case) difference between codecs.open and io.open? What is the difference?
> A small difference that I just discovered is that codecs.open(somefile).read() returns a bytestring if no encoding is specified, but a unicode string if an encoding is specified. io.open always returns a unicode string.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Regards,
>
> Albert-Jan
>

You might get an answer here if you're lucky, but I believe this is more 
python-list territory.

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