Issue #8796: codecs.open() calls the builtin open() function instead of using
StreamReaderWriter. Deprecate StreamReader, StreamWriter, StreamReaderWriter,
StreamRecoder and EncodedFile() of the codec module. Use the builtin open()
function or io.TextIOWrapper instead.
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Library
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+- Issue #8796: codecs.open() calls the builtin open() function instead of using
+ StreamReaderWriter. Deprecate StreamReader, StreamWriter, StreamReaderWriter,
+ StreamRecoder and EncodedFile() of the codec module. Use the builtin open()
+ function or io.TextIOWrapper instead.
+
- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size