functools.partial is a better option On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 1:25 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
> On 31Jul2019 19:16, Jach Fong <jf...@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 <c...@cskk.id.au> > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list