[Python-Dev] Proposal for Python 3.3: dependence injection

[James Y Knight]

On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> I want to test the dev community interest in modifying the stdlib to
> ease dependence injection.
> 
> The seminal idea was in
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-April/099237.html>.
> 
> A lot of stdlib modules use, deep inside, other modules to do their
> work. The most obvious case would be the socket library, used by ANY
> module involving the network.

Do you know about exocet (described by the last few blog entries on http://washort.twistedmatrix.com/search/label/exocet), a newly developed tool for doing dependency injection on arbitrary modules? It seems like it would be very well suited for the kinds of things you want to do.

James