[Python-Dev] Deprecate codecs.open() and StreamWriter/StreamReader (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Tue May 24 10:31:50 CEST 2011

Le mardi 24 mai 2011 à 08:16 +0000, Vinay Sajip a écrit :

So I would also want to keep codecs.open() and friends, at least for now

Well, I would agree to keep codecs.open() (if we patch it to reuse TextIOWrapper and add a note to say that it is kept for backward compatibiltiy and open() should be preferred in Python 3), but deprecate StreamReader, StreamWriter and EncodedFile.

As I wrote, codecs.open() is useful in Python 2. But I don't know any program or library using directly StreamReader or StreamWriter.

I found some projects (ex: twisted-mail, feeds2imap, pyflag, pygsm, ...) implementing their own Python codec (cool!) and their codec has their StreamReader and StreamWriter class, but I don't think that these classes are used.

Victor

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