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

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri May 27 17:34:28 CEST 2011

2011/5/27 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:

Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 15:33:07, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :

2011/5/27 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>: > You have until the release of Python 3.3 to prove that StreamReader > and/or StreamWriter can be faster than TextIOWrapper. If you can prove > it using a patch and a benchmark, I will be ok to revert my commit.

Please don't hold commits over someone's head. Tell me if I am wrong, but only Marc-Andre is against deprecating StreamReader and StreamWriter. Walter and Antoine are in favor of using TextIOWrapper instead of StreamReader/StreamWriter.

I'm am too. There does, however, seem to be significant disagreement, and it shouldn't be a race to see who can commit first.

Different people would like to be able to call codecs.open() in Python 2 and 3, so I kept the function with its API unchanged, and I documented that open() should be preferred (but I did not deprecated codecs.open).

-- Regards, Benjamin

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