On Aug 19, 8:10 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 19, 8:16 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hussein B wrote: > > > Is the standard library of Python is compiled (you know, the pyc > > > thing)? > > > Is it allowed to edit the source code of the standard library? > > > I'm not talking about submitting the modified code to Python source > > > code repository, I'm just asking if some one can edit the source code > > > in his own machine. > > > Python ships with the library sources, and you can of course edit them > > in exactly the same way as you'll edit any other Python file. modules > > in the standard library are no different from your own modules in that > > respect. > > > whether it's a good idea to edit them (unless you're trying to track > > down bugs or provide patches to the maintainers) is a different issue. > > > </F> > > A less invasive approach is monkey-patching [1], i.e. extend or modify > the runtime behavior without altering the original source code. For > instance I recently needed to patch the bug posted > athttp://bugs.python.org/issue1651995and I didn't have write access to > the standard library, so I monkeypatched SGMLParser: > > # XXX: monkeypatch SGMLParser to fix bug introduced in 2.5 > #http://bugs.python.org/issue1651995 > if sys.version_info[:2] == (2,5): > from sgmllib import SGMLParser > SGMLParser.convert_codepoint = lambda self,codepoint: > unichr(codepoint) > > HTH, > George > > [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch
Hmmm, nice to know about it :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
