On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:31, Daniel Stutzbach < dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> Now, from what I can tell, Antoine is suggesting having _pyio and a _io >> and then io is simply: >> >> try: from _io import * >> except ImportError: from _pyio import * >> >> That works for testing as you can then have test classes have an attribute >> for the module to use and then create two subclasses which set what module >> to use (kind of like how test_warnings currently does it). But this only >> really works for complete module replacements, not modules like pickle where >> only key portions have been rewritten (which happens more often than the >> complete rewrite). >> > > A slight change would make it work for modules where only key functions > have been rewritten. For example, pickle.py could read: > > from _pypickle import * > try: from _pickle import * > except ImportError: pass > True, although that still suffers from the problem of overwriting things like __name__, __file__, etc. -Brett
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