[Python-Dev] Status of the PEP 400? (deprecate codecs.StreamReader/StreamWriter) (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Aug 12 00:21:20 CEST 2011

On 8/11/2011 3:31 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Le 29/07/2011 19:01, Guido van Rossum a écrit :

I will add your alternative to the PEP (except if you would like to do that yourself?). If I understood correctly, you propose to:

* rename codecs.open() to codecs.openstream() * change codecs.open() to reuse open() (and so io.TextIOWrapper) (...) +1 Ok, most people prefer this option. Should I modify the PEP to "move" this option has the first/main proposition (move my proposition as an alternative?), or can the PEP be validated in the current state?

I would relabel the above as the Minimal Change Alternative or M.A.L. alternative or whatever and possibly move it but in any case note that Guido (and others) accepted that alternative with consideration of more drastic changes deferred to later. And add an explicit reference to the email you quoted.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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