On 2012-10-25, at 4:39 PM, Terry Reedy
On 10/25/2012 12:10 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote:
- And what's your opinion on writing a PEP about making it possible to pass a custom socket-factory to stdlib objects?
I think this is probably a good idea quite aside from async issues. For one thing, it would make testing with a mock-socket class easier. Issues to decide: name of parameter (should be same for all socket using classes); keyword only? (ditto).
Right, good catch on mocking sockets! As for the issues: I think that the parameter name should be the same/very consistent, and surely keyword-only.
I am not sure this needs a PEP. Most parameter additions are just tracker issues. But I would be worthwhile to decide on the details here first.
We'll see. I'll start with a detailed post on python-ideas, and if the PEP looks like an overkill - I'd be glad to skip the PEP step. Thanks, Yury