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-rw-r--r--HACKING.rst4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index 27c5e485..b7cc831c 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -83,14 +83,16 @@ commandline arguments, etc.) should be presumed to be encoded as utf-8.
WRONG:
+ infile = open('testfile', 'r')
mystring = infile.readline()
myreturnstring = do_some_magic_with(mystring)
outfile.write(myreturnstring)
RIGHT:
+ infile = open('testfile', 'r')
mystring = infile.readline()
- mytext = s.decode('utf-8')
+ mytext = mystring.decode('utf-8')
returntext = do_some_magic_with(mytext)
returnstring = returntext.encode('utf-8')
outfile.write(returnstring)