1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/compat/py3k.py b/numpy/compat/py3k.py
index 7357bacff..7349964b8 100644
--- a/numpy/compat/py3k.py
+++ b/numpy/compat/py3k.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Python 3 compatibility tools.
 
 __all__ = ['bytes', 'asbytes', 'isfileobj', 'getexception', 'strchar',
            'unicode', 'asunicode', 'asbytes_nested', 'asunicode_nested',
-           'asstr']
+           'asstr', 'open_latin1']
 
 import sys
 
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
         return s.decode('latin1')
     def isfileobj(f):
         return isinstance(f, io.FileIO)
+    def open_latin1(filename, mode='r'):
+        return open(f, mode=mode, encoding='iso-8859-1')
     strchar = 'U'
 else:
     bytes = str
@@ -37,6 +39,8 @@ else:
         if isinstance(s, unicode):
             return s
         return s.decode('ascii')
+    def open_latin1(filename, mode='r'):
+        return open(filename, mode=mode)
 
 def getexception():
     return sys.exc_info()[1]