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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	Arfrever, elixir, ishimoto, jwilk, loewis, methane, mrabarnett, ncoghlan, nikratio, pitrou, rurpy2, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2014-02-04.11:28:14
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Message-id	<1391513295.28.0.832802307878.issue15216@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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If operating systems always exposed accurate metadata and configuration settings, I'd agree with you. They don't though, so sometimes developers need to be able to override whatever the interpreter figured out automatically. In addition, needing to cope with badly designed APIs is an unfortunate fact of life - that's why monkeypatching is only discouraged, rather than disallowed :)

If operating systems always exposed accurate metadata and configuration settings, I'd agree with you. They don't though, so sometimes developers need to be able to override whatever the interpreter figured out automatically.

In addition, needing to cope with badly designed APIs is an unfortunate fact of life - that's why monkeypatching is only *discouraged*, rather than disallowed :)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-02-04 11:28:15	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, loewis, ishimoto, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, mrabarnett, Arfrever, methane, nikratio, rurpy2, serhiy.storchaka, elixir
2014-02-04 11:28:15	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1391513295.28.0.832802307878.issue15216@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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