Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 02:26:14 CEST 2012

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>> Monkey patching is a common practice in Python. test_os.py replaces
>> os.exec*() functions temporary for example.
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> Perhaps for testing, but I don't think monkey-patching is common in
> production code. Perhaps you are thinking of Ruby :)

The gevent library does monkey-patch os.fork (and time.sleep and many
other functions), but gevent is maybe not ready for production? :-)

Victor

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