Backported issues #19619: encode() and decode() methods and constructors
of str, unicode and bytearray classes now emit deprecation warning for known
non-text encodings when Python is ran with the -3 option.
Backported issues #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence io.open()) now uses the
internal codec marking system added to emit deprecation warning for known non-text
encodings at stream construction time when Python is ran with the -3 option.
of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders (a way to use
stateful codecs without the stream API). Functions
codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() have
been added.
Serhiy Storchaka
Georg Brandl
Walter Dörwald
Raymond Hettinger