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  r82057 | victor.stinner | 2010-06-17 23:43:33 +0200 (jeu., 17 juin 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
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Lib/idlelib/textView.py

@@ -62,11 +62,7 @@ def view_text(parent, title, text):
 
 def view_file(parent, title, filename, encoding=None):
     try:
-        if encoding:
-            import codecs
-            textFile = codecs.open(filename, 'r')
-        else:
-            textFile = open(filename, 'r')
+        textFile = open(filename, 'r', encoding=encoding)
     except IOError:
         import tkinter.messagebox as tkMessageBox
         tkMessageBox.showerror(title='File Load Error',

Misc/NEWS

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ C-API
 Library
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+- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
+
 - Issue #8720: fix regression caused by fix for #4050 by making getsourcefile
   smart enough to find source files in the linecache.