Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support Python

scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie of the
script).

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 2533226025..aa4b6d5c4f 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ def _url_handler(url, content_type="text/html"):
     def html_getfile(path):
         """Get and display a source file listing safely."""
         path = path.replace('%20', ' ')
-        with open(path, 'r') as fp:
+        with tokenize.open(path) as fp:
             lines = html.escape(fp.read())
         body = '<pre>%s</pre>' % lines
         heading = html.heading(