Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings than
UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1d76698..b233650 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
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+- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
+ instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
+ than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
+
- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.