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-rw-r--r--Modules/_io/_iomodule.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index 652c2ce5b0..c627ca257f 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ _io_open_impl(PyObject *module, PyObject *file, const char *mode,
goto error;
}
- if (binary && encoding != NULL) {
+ if (binary && encoding != NULL
+ && strcmp(encoding, "locale") != 0) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument");
goto error;