Is there an easy and cross-platform way to set default encoding for opening files (text mode) in Python, so you don't have to write
open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8')
each time and can simply write
open(filename, 'r')
?
from io import open # for python2 compatibility
old_open = open
def open(*args, **kwargs):
encoding = kwargs.pop('encoding', 'utf8')
return old_open(*args, encoding=encoding, **kwargs)