Message 136291 - Python tracker

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+        if not isinstance(fileobject, StringIO):
+            encoding = codecs.lookup(fileobject.encoding).name

IMO you should try to get the "encoding" attribute and silence the AttributeError instead.

(also, I'm not even sure why you're adding this check)