I’m really confused with the codecs.open function. When I do:
file = codecs.open("temp", "w", "utf-8")
file.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
file.close()
It gives me the error
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xef in position
0: ordinal not in range(128)
If I do:
file = open("temp", "w")
file.write(codecs.BOM_UTF8)
file.close()
It works fine.
Question is why does the first method fail? And how do I insert the bom?
If the second method is the correct way of doing it, what the point of using codecs.open(filename, "w", "utf-8")?
