On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The next major release of Cython (0.23) will begin to
> monkey patch the Python standard lib. Personally I consider
> this behavior borderline evil, and I don't think we need
> any of the features that Cython patches into the standard
> lib. So should we add the off-switches to SciPy's
> "cythonize" scipt?

The monkeypatching only happens when you actually use those features, so no, I don't think we need to do anything here.

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Robert Kern