On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > The only examples I could find from a quick search (using the patch > decorator from my mock module which is reasonably well used) patch > __builtins__.open and raw_input. > > https://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22patch%28%27__builtin__.%22+lang%3Apython+case%3Ayes
So, that significantly weakens the argument that this optimization will break unit tests, since I am happy to promise never to optimize these builtins, and any other builtins intended for I/O. Surely it will break *somebody's* code. That hasn't stopped us with other changes. The crux is whether it breaks significant amounts of code or code that would be really hard to write in another way. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
