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On 24/03/2011 02:06, Jesus Cea wrote:
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> On 23/03/11 20:56, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> For 3.3, I'd like to revive the tradition of listing planned large-scale
>> changes in the PEP.
> I want to integrate dependence injection in the stdlib, specially in
> libs creating sockets. This would be an optional feature.
>
> The idea would be, for instance, that smtplib could call an optional
> constructor to create a socket-like object, if some is provided.
>
> That would break the implicit dependency with sockets, reduce
> monkey-patching need, and ease testing the libs.
>
> I proposed this on the list like a year ago. Somebody else said he was
> planning a PEP... not done yet, I guess.
>
> Digging the archive:
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-April/099237.html>

Although from this email it seems like it is for much more than just 
testability, in which case go ahead. :-)

Michael

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