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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Indeed. I'm also heavily influenced by MAL's opinion on this
> particular topic, so the fact he's OK with this approach counts for a
> lot. It achieves the main benefit I'm interested in (transparently
> migrating users of the codecs.open API to the new IO stack), while
> paving the way for eliminating the redundancy at some point in the
> future.

+1

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