Right way to open files with different encodings?

[Winfried]

Hello,

Some of the files could be Windows (latin1, iso9959-1, cp1252), others could be utf-8.

Is try/except the right way to do it?

#with open(file, 'r') as f:
#with open(file, 'r',encoding='utf-8') as f:
#latin1, iso9959-1, cp1252
with open(file, 'r',encoding='latin-1') as f:
  content_text = f.read()

  soup = BeautifulSoup(content_text, 'html.parser')

Thank you.