[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: Deprecate codecs.StreamReader and codecs.StreamWriter

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at 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.



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Regards,
Benjamin