From 91bf312e4d96ff3d946333909243661a1b440b18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lex Berezhny <lex@damoti.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:35:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix for file open during publish

---
 lbrynet/core/file_utils.py  | 17 -----------------
 lbrynet/daemon/Publisher.py |  3 +--
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 lbrynet/core/file_utils.py

diff --git a/lbrynet/core/file_utils.py b/lbrynet/core/file_utils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ec9be280..000000000
--- a/lbrynet/core/file_utils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from contextlib import contextmanager
-
-
-@contextmanager
-def get_read_handle(path):
-    """
-    Get os independent read handle for a file
-    """
-
-    if os.name == "nt":
-        file_mode = 'rb'
-    else:
-        file_mode = 'r'
-    read_handle = open(path, file_mode)
-    yield read_handle
-    read_handle.close()
diff --git a/lbrynet/daemon/Publisher.py b/lbrynet/daemon/Publisher.py
index ee7045cfc..5c76ddb1d 100644
--- a/lbrynet/daemon/Publisher.py
+++ b/lbrynet/daemon/Publisher.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from binascii import hexlify
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
-from lbrynet.core import file_utils
 from lbrynet.file_manager.EncryptedFileCreator import create_lbry_file
 from lbrynet.wallet.account import get_certificate_lookup
 
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ class Publisher:
             raise Exception("Cannot publish empty file {}".format(file_path))
 
         file_name = os.path.basename(file_path)
-        with file_utils.get_read_handle(file_path) as read_handle:
+        with open(file_path, 'rb') as read_handle:
             self.lbry_file = yield create_lbry_file(
                 self.blob_manager, self.storage, self.payment_rate_manager, self.lbry_file_manager, file_name,
                 read_handle