On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote: > Le 28/07/2011 00:36, Guido van Rossum a écrit : >> >> Sorry Victor, I somehow didn't see that message even though I received >> it (I probably thought it was a continuation of the python-dev thread >> which I've been ignoring). > > No problem. > >> no, there's no particular hurry > > That's why it's a deprecation process and the removal is schedule for later: > "3.4 (or maybe later)". I added "or maybe later" before reopening a new > thread on this list.
That still sounds fairly aggressive. >> no, I don't think you should change codecs.open() to call io.open() > > The PEP is useless without this change. If we don't deprecate any class and > don't change codecs.open(), it's better to just reject the PEP. Why? (Not that I am against rejecting the PEP. I feel weakly opinioned in this case, about -0.) >> start deprecating them formally once we feel that most users have switched > > Users of codecs.open() or users of codecs.Stream* classes? I would think both. Is there any reason to continue using codecs.open()? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
