I am attempting to use the fileinput
module's inplace filtering feature to rewrite an input file in place.
Needed to set encoding (both for read and write) to latin-1
and attempted to pass openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded('latin-1')
to fileinput.input
but was thwarted by the error
ValueError: FileInput cannot use an opening hook in inplace mode
Upon closer inspection I see that the fileinput
documentation clearly states this: You cannot use inplace and openhook together
How can I get around this?
Starting python 3.10 fileinput.input()
accepts an encoding parameter