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

3 points by roh26it 2 years ago | 2 comments

patrakov 2 years ago |

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

brodouevencode 2 years ago | |

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

patrakov 2 years ago |

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

brodouevencode 2 years ago | |

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