[Tutor] reading lines from a list of files

[Peter Otten]

Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:

> It was not that long ago that I found out about the fileinput module, so I
> sometimes forget to use it. It is not specify the encoding of the files,
> is it? It'd be nice if one could specify a tuple of encodings, e.g.
> ('utf-8-sig', 'latin1', 'cp1252').
> 
> input(files=None, inplace=0, backup='', bufsize=0, mode='r',
> openhook=None)
>         input([files[, inplace[, backup[, mode[, openhook]]]]])

Whatever you plan to do with these encodings, it should be possible with a 
custom openhook.