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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 03:16:46 CEST 2011

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

Le 07/07/2011 19:33, Terry Reedy a écrit :

On 7/7/2011 7:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

The main point of the PEP, IMO, is actually the deprecation itself. By deprecating, we signal that something isn't actively maintained anymore, and that a (allegedly better) alternative is available. I think that's a very reasonable thing to do, regardless of whether or not the "thing" actually gets removed in a later version. Yes, the final decision could be deprecate now, remove in 4.0, as happened during the 2.x series. Python 4? Are you serious?

Py3k was a mythological "some time in the dim distant future" target for backwards incompatible changes for a long time before it became a real project that people were working on actually building. Py4k is now a similarly mythological beast :)

However, like Brett, I don't think it's actually needed in this particular case. Deprecation in 3.3, removal in 3.5 is a time frame completely in line with the desire to avoid a repeat of the PyCObject/PyCapsule related incompatibility problems.

Cheers, Nick.

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