pylint checks

tasks.py

@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ def export_records(
     print('Running data post-processing step...')
 
     # Post-process the file, to remove any "permissions" specified for a user or group
-    with open(tmpfile) as f_in:
+    with open(tmpfile, encoding='utf-8') as f_in:
         data = json.loads(f_in.read())
 
     data_out = []
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ def export_records(
             data_out.append(entry)
 
     # Write the processed data to file
-    with open(target, 'w') as f_out:
+    with open(target, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
         f_out.write(json.dumps(data_out, indent=2))
 
     print('Data export completed')
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ def import_records(
     # Pre-process the data, to remove any "permissions" specified for a user or group
     datafile = f'{target}.data.json'
 
-    with open(target) as f_in:
+    with open(target, encoding='utf-8') as f_in:
         try:
             data = json.loads(f_in.read())
         except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
@@ -714,11 +714,11 @@ def import_records(
             print(entry)
 
     # Write the auth file data
-    with open(authfile, 'w') as f_out:
+    with open(authfile, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
         f_out.write(json.dumps(auth_data, indent=2))
 
     # Write the processed data to the tmp file
-    with open(datafile, 'w') as f_out:
+    with open(datafile, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
         f_out.write(json.dumps(load_data, indent=2))
 
     excludes = content_excludes(allow_auth=False)
@@ -888,8 +888,8 @@ def test_translations(c):
     last_string = ''
 
     # loop through input file lines
-    with open(file_path) as file_org:
-        with open(new_file_path, 'w') as file_new:
+    with open(file_path, encoding='utf-8') as file_org:
+        with open(new_file_path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file_new:
             for line in file_org:
                 if line.startswith('msgstr "'):
                     # write output -> replace regex matches with x in the read in (multi)string