[issue8796] Deprecate codecs.open()

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

If there are use cases of Stream{Reader,Writer} which are not covered by TextIOWrapper, it would be nice to know so that we can improve TextIOWrapper. After all, there should be one obvious way to do it ;)

By the way, something interesting (probably unintended):

>>> codecs.open("LICENSE", "r")
<_io.TextIOWrapper name='LICENSE' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>
>>> codecs.open("LICENSE", "r", encoding="utf-8")
<codecs.StreamReaderWriter object at 0x7f71846ac840>

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