Problem with path.open

[rpspringuel]

I'm working with the syllabify script from hyphen-la repository and am running up against what appears to be a problem with Pyphen. The last lines of the stack trace read as follows:

File "/Users/ss/Library/Python/3.12/lib/python/site-packages/pyphen/__init__.py", line 117, in __init__
    with path.open('rb') as fd:
         ^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'open'

This suggests to me that the path variable is being misinterpreted as a str rather than as a path to a file that can be opened. Doing some search online, I found a StackOverflow question which talks about this sort of error, but it's flagged for Python 2.7, not Python 3.*. Still, I took it as a starting point and came up with this diff.patch.

I'm not submitting this as a PR because it removes the attempted detection of encoding and instead relies on the input being in Unicode (the default assumption for Python). I couldn't find an encoding detection method that doesn't require importing a new package and I didn't want to add a dependency.

[liZe]

Hi!

Thanks for the report. Could you please share the whole stack?

[rpspringuel]

The whole stack trace was as follows:

syllabify returned error number 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ss/Documents/Programming/hyphen-la/syllabifier/syllabify.py", line 157, in <module>
    hyphenator = pyphen.Pyphen(filename=dir_path+'/../patterns/hyph_la_'+args.mode+'.dic',left=lefthyphenmin,right=righthyphenmin)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/ss/Library/Python/3.12/lib/python/site-packages/pyphen/__init__.py", line 223, in __init__
    hdcache[filename] = HyphDict(filename)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/ss/Library/Python/3.12/lib/python/site-packages/pyphen/__init__.py", line 117, in __init__
    with path.open('rb') as fd:
         ^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'open'

[liZe]

Should be fixed in main, feedback is welcome!

[rpspringuel]

Initial testing has it working just fine. Thanks.