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Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a library to do?

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Post by roh26it » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a library to do?

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Post by patrakov » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

Yes, if this is documented and not done by default. Example: https://www.gevent.org/api/gevent.monkey.html

Re: Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a library to do?

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Post by brodouevencode » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 3:52 PM UTC

patrakov wrote: post #2

Yes, if this is documented and not done by default. Example: https://www.gevent.org/api/gevent.monkey.html

Implementing like gevent did is also preferable, where you can patch some or all as arguments to the patch call.

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