where to put global testing value

[Ned Batchelder]

On 4/29/14 12:17 PM, Robin Becker wrote:
> A user complains that under AppEngine I'm not allowed to import __main__.
>
> I can fix this issue merely by putting a try block around the offending
> import which is only used like this
>
>
> import __main__
> testing = getattr(__main__,'_rl_testing',False)
> del __main__
>
> this is only used as a hack way, during testing, to modify the behaviour
> of the importing module (a proxy for a C extension). During testing we
> keep both the C version and the supposed replacement of various
> functions so they can be tested against each other
>
> https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/default/src/reportlab/lib/rl_accel.py
>
>
> Is there a more reasonable way to allow changes to module level globals
> before the import takes place? I guess since this module is supposed
> only to be imported by reportlab we can put this sort of thing onto the
> reportlab module itself, but that could possibly lead to import loops.
>
> Any ideas?

In coverage.py, I used environment variables to control that kind of 
behavior.

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