Method open

lectures/srt-split/pysrt/srtfile.py:144–155

open([path, [encoding]]) If you do not provide any encoding, it can be detected if the file contain a bit order mark, unless it is set to utf-8 as default.

(cls, path='', encoding=None, error_handling=ERROR_PASS)

    @classmethod
    def open(cls, path='', encoding=None, error_handling=ERROR_PASS):
        """
        open([path, [encoding]])

        If you do not provide any encoding, it can be detected if the file
        contain a bit order mark, unless it is set to utf-8 as default.
        """
        new_file = cls(path=path, encoding=encoding)
        source_file = cls._open_unicode_file(path, claimed_encoding=encoding)
        new_file.read(source_file, error_handling=error_handling)
        source_file.close()
        return new_file

    @classmethod
    def from_string(cls, source, **kwargs):