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Wed Jan 23 11:28:43 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076417.html

Hello,
Ralf Schmitt:
> > It's not an ugly hack, it's a well known feature. Add you don't have to
> > change a lot of places, too. It's sufficient to add the alias at the
> > entry point of your application (the script that starts your app). Once
> > the alias sys.modules]'mmap'] = ralfmmap is set, every import mmap gets
> > your ralfmmap.
>
> Well, I have multiple scripts using multiple libraries using the new mmap
> objects.
> So, I would have to change those scripts (if I don't change the libraries),
> or change the libraries. And when I want to distribute my apps with bbfreeze
> (similar to py2exe), I also need to handle that  import hackery. This is
> what I call ugly :) (at least in comparison to linux).

You can also modify site.py and put the hack there.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

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