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

[Victor Stinner]

Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 13:10 +0200, Victor Stinner a écrit :
> codecs is always faster (between 1.07 and 1.15 times faster than io) to
> read the whole content of file using read(-1). Something should maybe be
> optimized in TextIOWrapper.read() ;-)

Oh, I understood: it's maybe the universal newline mode of TextIOWrapper
was enabled. If you disable is using open(..., newline='\n'), io and
codecs run at the same speed to read the whole content of the file
(f.read()).

Victor