[Python-Dev] Overriding stdlib http package

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

You could do the sys.modules patch as Antoine suggested in a .pth file, so
that it's triggered at startup.
Eg, very similar:
https://github.com/xando/subprocess.run/blob/ab02d165802b2ad57dd0d16c1169ab05ed312ef1/subprocess.run.pth


Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, blog.ionelmc.ro

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:32 PM, 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.
>
> It's greatly simplified over importlib2's inject mechanism, but I'm
> assuming that's largely due to requirements of that package (i.e. Python
> 2) in contrast to this one.
>
> My questions are: Does this look sane? Is there anything that I might be
> not accounting for? It /does/ seem to work as expected when running
> tests, but I'm curious if there's anything that I might be missing that
> might jump out at someone more intimately familiar with the mechanics of
> importlib.
>
> Thanks,
> Demian
>
>
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