RetroSearch Browse

Thu Jul 7 05:51:52 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112256.html

2011/7/6 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The API of the resulting object is the same (i.e. they're file-like
> objects). The behavioural differences are due to cases where the
> codec-specific classes are currently broken.

Yes, but as we all know too well, people are surely relying on
whatever behavior there is, broken or not.

-- 
Regards,
Benjamin

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112256.html below:

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