[Python-Dev] Overriding stdlib http package

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/14/2015 11:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:32:23 -0800 Demian Brecht
> <demianbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> As part of the work I'm doing on httplib3 (now that I've actually
>> gotten a bit of time), one of the things I'm trying to get done is
>> injection of httplib3 over http in order to not have to modify all
>> import paths in modules and such. Here's the gist of what I have so
>> far: https://gist.github.com/demianbrecht/bc6530a40718e4fcbf90.
> 
> What don't you simply monkeypatch sys.modules, e.g.:
> 
> import myhttplib
> 
> sys.modules['http'] = myhttplib
> 
> or doesn't it work as desired?

Doesn't that leave any prior imports broken (using the original module)?


Tres.
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