From 870f09a7f4296712de404dccea1c3a7bf52f66c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:43:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its
 encoding argument.

---
 Lib/idlelib/textView.py | 6 +-----
 Misc/NEWS               | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/textView.py b/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
index 3f3c2477891..e5c551ad83a 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/textView.py
@@ -62,11 +62,7 @@ def view_text(parent, title, text):
 
 def view_file(parent, title, filename, encoding=None):
     try:
-        if encoding:
-            import codecs
-            textFile = codecs.open(filename, 'r')
-        else:
-            textFile = open(filename, 'r')
+        textFile = open(filename, 'r', encoding=encoding)
     except IOError:
         import tkinter.messagebox as tkMessageBox
         tkMessageBox.showerror(title='File Load Error',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 41ac42dd6b2..121e92d0c29 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2047,6 +2047,8 @@ Installation
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
+
 - Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
   specific Python version.