Python 3.15 defaults to UTF-8 for character encoding. Changes on Windows

On October 9, 2026, Python 3.15.0 was released. When opening a file with open() without specifying a character encoding, it ...

Handling CSV Character Encoding, Dates, and Numbers Correctly: A Practical Introduction to Python

When you start working with CSVs in Python, almost everyone hits the same wall. It looks garbled when opened in Excel. Dates remain as strings and cannot be calculated. You get an error when trying to ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding

The demo is a Python language program but programmatic data encoding can be implemented using any language. The first five lines of the demo source data are: M 0.171429 eastern 0.802905 moderate F ...
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Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

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Python 2.8?

So you need to treat them as opaque byte strings, not as encoded Unicode even on Windows. Hmm, but how are you meant to use byte strings with open()? I would have thought this should work, but it ...