codecs_open_read.py

#1/usr/bin/env python

# this is from The Python
# Standard Library by example
# ISBN13: 9780321767349

import codecs
import sys

encoding = sys.argv[1]
filename = encoding + '.txt'

print 'Reading from', filename
with codecs.open(filename, mode='rt', encoding=encoding) as f:
    print repr(f.read())