[Python-Dev] why is mmap a builtin module on windows? (original) (raw)

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 11:28:43 CET 2008

Hello, Ralf Schmitt:

> It's not an ugly hack, it's a well known feature. Add you don't have to > change a lot of places, too. It's sufficient to add the alias at the > entry point of your application (the script that starts your app). Once > the alias sys.modules]'mmap'] = ralfmmap is set, every import mmap gets > your ralfmmap.

Well, I have multiple scripts using multiple libraries using the new mmap objects. So, I would have to change those scripts (if I don't change the libraries), or change the libraries. And when I want to distribute my apps with bbfreeze (similar to py2exe), I also need to handle that import hackery. This is what I call ugly :) (at least in comparison to linux).

You can also modify site.py and put the hack there.

-- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

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