[issue13815] tarfile.ExFileObject can't be wrapped using io.TextIOWrapper

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Wed May 9 15:41:47 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Yeah, I know it is technically private.  We still tend to keep names
> around unless there's a good reason to delete them (like using them
> leads to broken code anyway).  The code search is some evidence this
> deletion would be OK, but why *not* follow Amaury's suggestion?

I don't see the point of maintaining a private API that's proven to be
unused :) It's an unwarranted maintenance burden (though admittedly a
light one here).

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