[Python-Dev] Status of the PEP 400? (deprecate codecs.StreamReader/StreamWriter)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jul 29 17:17:31 CEST 2011


On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:28:43 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> 
> I will add your alternative to the PEP (except if you would like to do 
> that yourself?). If I understood correctly, you propose to:
> 
>   * rename codecs.open() to codecs.open_stream()
>   * change codecs.open() to reuse open() (and so io.TextIOWrapper)
> 
> (and don't deprecate anything)

This may be an interesting approach. In a few years, we can evaluate
whether users are calling open_stream(), and if there aren't any, we
can deprecate the whole thing.

Regards

Antoine.




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