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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/_iotools.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/_iotools.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/_iotools.py b/numpy/lib/_iotools.py index f5368526d..a576925d6 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/_iotools.py +++ b/numpy/lib/_iotools.py @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ def _decode_line(line, encoding=None): ---------- line : str or bytes Line to be decoded. + encoding : str + Encoding used to decode `line`. Returns ------- @@ -27,9 +29,8 @@ def _decode_line(line, encoding=None): """ if type(line) is bytes: if encoding is None: - line = line.decode('latin1') - else: - line = line.decode(encoding) + encoding = "latin1" + line = line.decode(encoding) return line |