Message 164377 - Python tracker

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> The proposal [1] is that TextIOWrapper support a set_encoding() method 
> that is only supported between creation of the stream and the first
> read or write operation.

That will be fragile. A bit of prematurate input or output (for whatever reason) and your program breaks.