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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:08:45 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, nobody has stepped forward to do the work of maintaining
> the codecs IO implementation independently of the io module, so the
> only two options seriously on the table are B and C.

Since nobody has stepped up to implement option B either, I think the
only option seriously on the table is C.

> Now, it may be that this PEP runs afoul of Guido's stated preference
> not to introduce any more backwards incompatibilities between 2.x and
> 3.x that aren't absolutely essential.

Well, a deprecation isn't an incompatibility in itself.
Especially when deprecation warnings are hidden by default.

Regards

Antoine.