Open source files with the proper encoding.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/execfile.py b/coverage/execfile.py
index 333163f8..8fbf63b8 100644
--- a/coverage/execfile.py
+++ b/coverage/execfile.py
@@ -38,10 +38,15 @@ def run_python_file(filename, args):
     try:
         # Open the source file.
         try:
-            source = open(filename, 'rU').read()
+            source_file = open(filename, 'rU')
         except IOError:
             raise NoSource("No file to run: %r" % filename)
 
+        try:
+            source = source_file.read()
+        finally:
+            source_file.close()
+
         # We have the source.  `compile` still needs the last line to be clean,
         # so make sure it is, then compile a code object from it.
         if source[-1] != '\n':