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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 28 03:21:57 CEST 2011

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 5/27/2011 11:08 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Tell me if I am wrong, but only Marc-Andre is against deprecating StreamReader While I am, in general, in favor of removing some duplication, I was and am against doing this change precipitously. So I was for the reversion (noted), at least temporarily. Given the disagreement, I think there should be a PEP with pro and con arguments.

Indeed.

I'm also against any deprecation in this area, since that just means needless work for anyone that do use these APIs (even if those people are few and far between). If we can refactor to remove the duplication of functionality, that's a much better solution.

If we can carry optparse style argument parsing and 2.x style string formatting, we can carry a couple of legacy codec interface definitions.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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