BigInt Shipping in Firefox

Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by recursive on Thursday May 23, 2019 @01:56PM (#19994153)

I don't think monkey patching is really common in any version of python. I've not seen it done anywhere.

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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:07PM (#19995962)

Setuptools monkeypatches distutils. Pip always uses setuptools so pretty much everything installed via Pypi is the fruit of a monkeypatch.

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Re:BigInt Shipping in Firefox by tyingq on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:03PM (#19994226)

Talking about the intro of bytes, bytearrays and the not quite the same types that were backported to 2.x

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