> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:>> ... and because of this, the feature is already available if>> you use codecs.open() instead of the built-in open():
Neil Hodgson asked:
> So should I not add an issue for the basic open because codecs.open> should be used for this case?
In python 3, why does codecs.open even still exist?
As best I can tell, codecs.open should be the same as regular open,
but for a unicode file -- and all text files are treated as unicode in
python 3.0
So at this point, are there any differences beyond:
(a) The builtin open doesn't work on multi-byte line-endings other
than the multi-character CRLF. (In other words, it goes by the
traditional Operating System conventions developed when a char was a
byte, but the Unicode standard allows for a few more possibilities,
which are currently rare in practice.)
(b) The codecs version is much slower, because it hasn't seen the
optimization effort.
-jJ