"rt", "wt", "xt" or "at" for text mode. The default mode is "rb", and the default compresslevel is 9. For binary mode, this function is equivalent to the BZ2File constructor: BZ2File(filename, mode, compresslevel). In this case, the encoding, errors and newline arguments must not be provided. For text mode, a BZ2File object is created, and wrapped in an io.TextIOWrapper instance with the specified encoding, error handling behavior, and line ending(s). Z