2011/7/6 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> 2011/7/6 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
