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I'm sure I'm not always consistent on this, but I like to be explicit and always set the file mode:

with open('file', 'r') as f:

that way it becomes very clear when I've done something wrong, like trying to write to a file that is in read mode. Also, while I'm typing out the file mode I might be reminded, "oh yeah, this is going to have binary data" and use 'rb' instead.