Better support for file contents writing // Issue #2796

platformio/compat.py

@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ if PY2:
             return path
         return path.decode(get_filesystem_encoding()).encode("utf-8")
 
-    def get_file_contents(path):
-        with open(path) as f:
-            return f.read()
-
     def hashlib_encode_data(data):
         if is_bytes(data):
             return data
@@ -104,14 +100,6 @@ else:
     def path_to_unicode(path):
         return path
 
-    def get_file_contents(path):
-        try:
-            with open(path) as f:
-                return f.read()
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            with open(path, encoding="latin-1") as f:
-                return f.read()
-
     def hashlib_encode_data(data):
         if is_bytes(data):
             return data