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- The ``open`` method now uses ``io.open`` and supports all of the
parameters to that function. ``open`` will always raise an ``OSError``
on failure, even on Python 2.
- Updated ``write_text`` to support additional newline patterns.
- The ``text`` method now always returns text (never bytes), and thus
requires an encoding parameter be supplied if the default encoding is not
sufficient to decode the content of the file.