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diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index ba0b0a29b5..0f182d4240 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def open(file, mode="r", buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None,
raise ValueError("can't have read/write/append mode at once")
if not (creating or reading or writing or appending):
raise ValueError("must have exactly one of read/write/append mode")
- if binary and encoding is not None and encoding != "locale":
+ if binary and encoding is not None:
raise ValueError("binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument")
if binary and errors is not None:
raise ValueError("binary mode doesn't take an errors argument")