July 7, 2011
3:51 a.m.
2011/7/6 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> wrote:
2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>:
codecs.open() will be changed to reuse the builtin open() function (TextIOWrapper).
This doesn't strike me as particularly backwards compatible, since you've just enumerated the differences between StreamWriter/Reader and TextIOWrapper.
The API of the resulting object is the same (i.e. they're file-like objects). The behavioural differences are due to cases where the codec-specific classes are currently broken.
Yes, but as we all know too well, people are surely relying on whatever behavior there is, broken or not. -- Regards, Benjamin