Is there a simple way to wrap a built-in function for the whole package?

[jfong at ms4.hinet.net]

Cameron Simpson於 2019年8月2日星期五 UTC+8上午6時25分00秒寫道：
> On 31Jul2019 19:16, Jach Fong <jfong at ms4.hinet.net> wrote:
> >I get a package from Pypi. The package has many modules using built-in open() function. I like to redefine all the open() there with the default encoding 'utf-8', but not for code outside the package. Maybe I can put my def statement at the beginning of every module of this package, but just wondering is there a simple way of doing it?
> 
> I would define something like this in the __init__.py file of the 
> package (or in some utils.py file in the package):
> 
>   def open8(path):
>     return open(path, encoding='utf-8')
> 
> and just:
> 
>   from . import open8
> 
> and use "open8" throughout the code instead of "open"?
> 
> What not alias "open"? Because I would want it evident that in this code 
> we're doing a slightly special flavour of open. By using a distinct name 
> I avoid confusion about the unusual semantics.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>

Instead of changing open() to open8() throughout the code, I prefer change it  directly to open(encoding='utf-8'). Anyway, using "from . import open" is a good idea, thank you.

--Jach