.. _unspecified-encoding:

unspecified-encoding / W1514
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**Message emitted:**

Using open without explicitly specifying an encoding

**Description:**

*It is better to specify an encoding when opening documents. Using the system default implicitly can create problems on other operating systems. See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0597/*


**Correct code:**

.. code-block:: python

  def foo(file_path):
      with open(file_path, encoding="utf-8") as file:
          contents = file.read()


**Problematic code:**

.. code-block:: python

  def foo(file_path):
      with open(file_path) as file:  # [unspecified-encoding]
          contents = file.read()




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