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

3 pointsroh26it1y ago2 comments

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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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3 pointsroh26it1y ago2 comments

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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