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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Jul 7 05:51:52 CEST 2011

2011/7/6 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

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. The API of the resulting object is the same (i.e. they're file-like objects). The behavioural differences are due to cases where the codec-specific classes are currently broken.

Yes, but as we all know too well, people are surely relying on whatever behavior there is, broken or not.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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