How to specify encoding to fileinput

Question

In Python how do I specify the encoding to fileinput.input?

I wrote

f = fileinput.input(openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("windows-1252"))

but it doesn't work reliably. I get different results for script.py text.txt and script.py < text.txt

Answer 1

This is a bug in the fileinput module, it only uses the the encoding information when reading from files, not when reading from standard input :(