"Kent Johnson" <ken...@tds.net> wrote
Rather than editing the existing code and making it non standard
why not subclass robotparser:
That won't work, it is urllib.URLOpener() that he is patching and
Sorry, yes I misread that post as modifying robotparser, it
should have been URLOpener.
But...
robotparser does not supply a way to change the URLOpener subclass
that it uses.
I didn't realize that. So you would need to cut n' paste the
robotparser
read() method into a subclass of robotparser too. Which is almost
as messy as editing the original source. Such a shame that the
author didn't either put the opener as an attribute or as a defaulted
parameter of read!
Pity, I hate to see editing of existing classes in an OO system.
Alan G.
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