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 at http://bugs.python.org/issue1651995 and 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
