[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: Deprecate codecs.StreamReader and codecs.StreamWriter (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Jul 7 03:16:39 CEST 2011

2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:

codecs.open() will be changed to reuse the builtin open() function (TextIOWrapper).

This doesn't strike me as particularly backwards compatible, since you've just enumerated the differences between StreamWriter/Reader and TextIOWrapper.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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