On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <[email protected]>: >> 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. Victor, could you please check this into the PEPs repo? It's easier to reference once it has a real number. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
