[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: Deprecate codecs.StreamReader and codecs.StreamWriter

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/7/6 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
>>> codecs.open() will be changed to reuse the builtin open() function
>>> (TextIOWrapper).
>>
>> This doesn't strike me as particularly backwards compatible, since
>> you've just enumerated the differences between StreamWriter/Reader and
>> TextIOWrapper.
>
> The API of the resulting object is the same (i.e. they're file-like
> objects). The behavioural differences are due to cases where the
> codec-specific classes are currently broken.

Yes, but as we all know too well, people are surely relying on
whatever behavior there is, broken or not.



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Regards,
Benjamin