[Python-Dev] Status of the PEP 400? (deprecate codecs.StreamReader/StreamWriter)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Three weeks ago, I posted a draft on my PEP on this mailing list. I
> tried to include all remarks you made, and the PEP is now online:
> 
>    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0400/
> 
> It's now unclear to me if the PEP will be accepted or rejected. I don't
> know what to do to move forward.

The PEP still compares apples and oranges, issues and features,
and doesn't cover the fact that it is proposing to not just deprecate
a feature, but a part of a design concept which will then no longer
be available in Python.

I'm still -1 on that part of the PEP.

As I mentioned before, having
codecs.open() changed to be a wrapper around io.open() in Python 3.3,
should be investigated. If it doesn't cause too much trouble, this
would be a good idea. Please do keep the original implementation
around (e.g. renamed to codecs.open_stream()), though, so that it's
still possible to get easy-to-use access to codec StreamReader/Writers.

Thanks,
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