codecs.StreamWriter: reset() on close()

[mzabaluev]

BPO	460474
Nosy	@malemburg, @devdanzin

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GitHub fields:

assignee = 'https://github.com/malemburg'
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2001-09-10.21:55:47.000>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'codecs.StreamWriter: reset() on close()'
updated_at = <Date 2014-02-03.19:54:25.830>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/mzabaluev'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2014-02-03.19:54:25.830>
actor = 'BreamoreBoy'
assignee = 'lemburg'
closed = False
closed_date = None
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components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2001-09-10.21:55:47.000>
creator = 'mzabaluev'
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files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 460474
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message_count = 6.0
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'out of date'
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'languishing'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue460474'
versions = ['Python 3.2']

[mzabaluev]

A codecs.StreamWriter subclass can presumably hold
state between subsequent .write()'s. Its .reset()
method should probably finalize encoding as the end of
input would do.
Would it be reasonable to define the default
implementation of codecs.StreamWriter.close(self) which
calls codecs.StreamWriter.reset(self), then closes the
underlying stream? Same for
codecs.StreamWriter.__del__(self)?

[malemburg]

Sounds reasonable.

Could you come up with a patch ?

Thanks.

[mzabaluev]

Wow, it's exciting to receive followups 6+ years after filing the bug.

Could you come up with a patch ?

No, I don't do much Python development these days.

[malemburg]

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier.

The ticket was unassigned and only assigned to me yesterday.

[BreamoreBoy]

Anyone interested in this? Marc-Andre seemed +0.? on this in msg61288.

[BreamoreBoy]

No reply to msg114140.

[AlexWaygood]

Given that there has been no activity on this issue for over 11 years, I am closing this feature request as "rejected".

(Cc. @devdanzin, @mzabaluev)