New submission from Giampaolo Rodola':
In Python 2 the distinction between open() and codes.open() was clear because 'encoding' and 'errors' args were provided by codecs.open only. This is no longer the case in Python 3 since both args are provided also by open().
I'm probably missing something but regardless I think codecs.open doc [1] should be more clear as to when and why (say) codecs.open(file, encoding='utf8', errors='ignore') should be preferred over open(file, encoding='utf8', errors='ignore').
[1] http://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#codecs.open
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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").
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Change by Irit Katriel iritkatriel@yahoo.com:
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