[IMPR] use pathlib instead of codecs for reflinks.py

Change-Id: Ib2315249fd4c210e8f1649ffa45c4247e19b2c6c
---
M scripts/reflinks.py
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/reflinks.py b/scripts/reflinks.py
index 9fbd2f5..eb673b2 100755
--- a/scripts/reflinks.py
+++ b/scripts/reflinks.py
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 #
 # Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
 #
-import codecs
 import http.client as httplib
 import itertools
 import os
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@
 from enum import IntEnum
 from functools import partial
 from http import HTTPStatus
+from pathlib import Path
 from textwrap import shorten
 
 import pywikibot
@@ -527,8 +527,8 @@
     def setup(self):
         """Read dead links from file."""
         try:
-            with codecs.open(listof404pages, 'r', 'latin_1') as f:
-                self.dead_links = f.read()
+            path = Path(listof404pages)
+            self.dead_links = path.read_text(encoding='latin_1')
         except OSError:
             raise NotImplementedError(
                 '404-links.txt is required for reflinks.py\n'

