Opening a file with an encoding keyword argument in Python 2.7

[pelegm]

The line

f = open(options.outfile, 'w', encoding='utf-8')

does not work in Python 2.7. I think this is a result of this commit: de35cbb39f28f6903220f8c7568b95907c64ee40

[tsaiian]

I have same issue here.

[wagnerpeer]

The solution to work properly under Python 3 and Python 2.7 is change the open function which gets used to the open function of the builtin "io" module: from io import open