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

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> Le 07/07/2011 19:33, Terry Reedy a écrit :
>>
>> On 7/7/2011 7:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>>> The main point of the PEP, IMO, is actually the deprecation itself. By
>>> deprecating, we signal that something isn't actively maintained
>>> anymore, and that a (allegedly better) alternative is available.
>>> I think that's a very reasonable thing to do, regardless of whether or
>>> not the "thing" actually gets removed in a later version.
>>
>> Yes, the final decision could be deprecate now, remove in 4.0, as happened
>> during the 2.x series.
>
> Python 4? Are you serious?

Py3k was a mythological "some time in the dim distant future" target
for backwards incompatible changes for a long time before it became a
real project that people were working on actually building. Py4k is
now a similarly mythological beast :)

However, like Brett, I don't think it's actually needed in this
particular case. Deprecation in 3.3, removal in 3.5 is a time frame
completely in line with the desire to avoid a repeat of the
PyCObject/PyCapsule related incompatibility problems.

Cheers,
Nick.

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