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 -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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