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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Jul 28 11:03:19 CEST 2011

Victor Stinner wrote:

Hi,

Three weeks ago, I posted a draft on my PEP on this mailing list. I tried to include all remarks you made, and the PEP is now online: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0400/ It's now unclear to me if the PEP will be accepted or rejected. I don't know what to do to move forward.

The PEP still compares apples and oranges, issues and features, and doesn't cover the fact that it is proposing to not just deprecate a feature, but a part of a design concept which will then no longer be available in Python.

I'm still -1 on that part of the PEP.

As I mentioned before, having codecs.open() changed to be a wrapper around io.open() in Python 3.3, should be investigated. If it doesn't cause too much trouble, this would be a good idea. Please do keep the original implementation around (e.g. renamed to codecs.open_stream()), though, so that it's still possible to get easy-to-use access to codec StreamReader/Writers.

Thanks,

Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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