Is there a simple way to wrap a built-in function for the whole package?

[Batuhan Taskaya]

functools.partial is a better option

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 1:25 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:

> On 31Jul2019 19:16, Jach Fong <jfong at ms4.hinet.net> wrote:
> >I get a package from Pypi. The package has many modules using built-in
> open() function. I like to redefine all the open() there with the default
> encoding 'utf-8', but not for code outside the package. Maybe I can put my
> def statement at the beginning of every module of this package, but just
> wondering is there a simple way of doing it?
>
> I would define something like this in the __init__.py file of the
> package (or in some utils.py file in the package):
>
>   def open8(path):
>     return open(path, encoding='utf-8')
>
> and just:
>
>   from . import open8
>
> and use "open8" throughout the code instead of "open"?
>
> What not alias "open"? Because I would want it evident that in this code
> we're doing a slightly special flavour of open. By using a distinct name
> I avoid confusion about the unusual semantics.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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