Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> added the comment: That deprecation is way too fast. If someone wants to write code that works in Python 2.5 or older *and* Python 3 then codecs.open will most likely be how they keep compatibility for reading in encoded files.
But yes, overall it should get deprecated. Probably a PendingDeprecationWarning to start is good and then eventually switch to a DeprecationWarning once most Linux distributions have moved to Python 2.6. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8796> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
