[docs] [issue17437] Difference between open and codecs.open

STINNER Victor added the comment: See also the PEP 400. I proposed (in the alternative) to make codecs.open() somehow an alias to open() (and add codecs.open_stream() for "backward compatibility"). ---------- nosy: +haypo _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17437> _______________________________________