Wrap an open stream with io.TextIOWrapper

Question

How can I wrap an open binary stream – a Python 2 file, a Python 3 io.BufferedReader, an io.BytesIO – in an io.TextIOWrapper

Answer 1

Based on multiple suggestions in various forums, and experimenting with the standard library to meet the criteria, my current conclusion is this can't be done with the library and types as we currently have them.