Function getFileContents

nuitka/utils/FileOperations.py:1124–1140

Get the contents of a file. Args: filename: str with the file to be read mode: "r" for str, "rb" for bytes result encoding: optional encoding to used when reading the file, e.g. "utf8" errors: optional error handler decoding the content, as defined in `codecs`

(filename, mode="r", encoding=None, errors=None)

def getFileContents(filename, mode="r", encoding=None, errors=None):
    """Get the contents of a file.

    Args:
        filename: str with the file to be read
        mode: "r" for str, "rb" for bytes result
        encoding: optional encoding to used when reading the file, e.g. "utf8"
        errors: optional error handler decoding the content, as defined in `codecs`

    Returns:
        str or bytes - depending on mode.

    """

    with withFileLock("reading file %s" % filename):
        with openTextFile(filename, mode, encoding=encoding, errors=errors) as f:
            return f.read()


def stripFileContentsBOM(contents):