Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/textView.py b/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
index 3f3c247..e5c551a 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
@@ -62,11 +62,7 @@
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',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 41ac42d..121e92d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2047,6 +2047,8 @@
Library
-------
+- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
+
- Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
specific Python version.