Ulli Horlacher writes:
>> tarfile.TarFile.extractall = new_extractall
>
> This is more easy than I could imagined :-) It is in my Python notes,
> now.
This is called "duck punching" or "monkey patching" and sometimes it's
necessary, but it's something of an antipattern since the module could
chan
Matt Wheeler wrote:
> > How can I substitute the standard module function tarfile.extractall() with
> > my own function?
>
> import tarfile
> def new_extractall(self, *args, **kwargs):
> print("I am a function. Woohoo!")
>
> tarfile.TarFile.extractall = new_extractall
This is more easy tha
On 11 February 2016 at 17:10, Ulli Horlacher
wrote:
>
> Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> As a hack, I modified the standard library module tarfile.py:
>
> root@diaspora:/usr/lib/python2.7# vv -d
> --- ./.versions/tarfile.py~1~ 2015-06-22 21:59:27.0 +0200
> +++ tarfile.py 2016-02-11 18:01:50.185
Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> This code works so far:
>
> sfo = sock.makefile('r')
> taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sfo,mode='r|')
> taro.extractall(path=edir)
>
> But it does not writes anything to the terminal to inform the user.
>
> When I use:
>
> for member in taro.getmembers():
>
