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File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/codecs.py", line 490, in read
 data = self.bytebuffer + newdata
TypeError: can't concat bytes to NoneType
 if size < 0:
 newdata = self.stream.read()
 else:
 newdata = self.stream.read(size)
 # decode bytes (those remaining from the last call included)
 data = self.bytebuffer + newdata
if self.stream is nonblocking, it's read will return None (py3, py2 raises IOError(EGAIN)).
Simple `if newdata is None: return None` should fix that I guess

Use the io module instead using the open() function.

This is still an issue on Linux in both 3.4 and 3.7 even when using io.open() as suggested by @vstinner:
>>> import io, os, fcntl
>>> r, w = os.pipe()
>>> fcntl(r, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK)
0
>>> stream = io.open(r, 'rt')
>>> stream
<_io.TextIOWrapper name=X mode='rt' encoding='UTF-8'>
>>> stream.buffer
<_io.BufferedReader name=X>
>>> print(repr(stream.buffer.read()))
None
>>> stream.read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
 File ".../python3.7/codecs.py"..., in decode
 data = self.buffer + input
TypeError: can't concat NoneType to bytes
The error is present in at least 3.4 up to 3.7 where the underlying buffer.read() returns None which is not handled by the TextIOStream.

I close this issue as a duplicate of bpo-13322.