[Python-Dev] Deprecate codecs.open() and StreamWriter/StreamReader

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/5/27 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
> Le vendredi 27 mai 2011 15:33:07, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
>> 2011/5/27 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
>> > You have until the release of Python 3.3 to prove that StreamReader
>> > and/or StreamWriter can be faster than TextIOWrapper. If you can prove
>> > it using a patch and a benchmark, I will be ok to revert my commit.
>>
>> Please don't hold commits over someone's head.
>
> Tell me if I am wrong, but only Marc-Andre is against deprecating StreamReader
> and StreamWriter. Walter and Antoine are in favor of using TextIOWrapper
> instead of StreamReader/StreamWriter.

I'm am too. There does, however, seem to be significant disagreement,
and it shouldn't be a race to see who can commit first.

>
> Different people would like to be able to call codecs.open() in Python 2 and 3,
> so I kept the function with its API unchanged, and I documented that open()
> should be preferred (but I did not deprecated codecs.open).




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Regards,
Benjamin