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

Posted by roh26it on Friday August 23, 2024 @10:09AM
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Re:Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a l... by patrakov on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:01AM (#41329597)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Is function patching in Python acceptable for a l... by brodouevencode on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:52AM (#41330020)

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

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