[Zope3-dev] Overriding standard library modules

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:09, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> I've run into a situation where I need to -- in some cases -- override
> a Python standard library module.

> - Finally, we could create a pythonlib package but not put it on
>   sys.path.  Then you'd have to do "from pythonlib.gettext import
>   blah" and pythonlib.gettext would do the right thing.  It would use
>   a version check to see if the Python you're using has the right
>   gettext module and if not, import one from
>   pythonlib.compatXY.gettext where X and Y are the major and minor
>   revs of the Python executable.  If that raises an ImportError, then
>   we just import the global (i.e. standard) module and use it.

I haven't seen any comments on this and I want to move on, so I'm just
going to check all this in.  It would be easy enough to change later if
people end up hating it.

-Barry