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Example

Files opened in a non-binary mode (e.g. 'r' or 'w') deal with strings. The deafult encoding is 'utf8'.

open(fn, mode='r')                    # opens file for reading in utf8
open(fn, mode='r', encoding='utf16')  # opens file for reading utf16

# ERROR: cannot write bytes when a string is expected:
open("foo.txt", "w").write(b"foo")

Files opened in a binary mode (e.g. 'rb' or 'wb') deal with bytes. No encoding argument can be specified as there is no encoding.

open(fn, mode='wb')  # open file for writing bytes

# ERROR: cannot write string when bytes is expected:
open(fn, mode='wb').write("hi")

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