Overriding inputs to python packages

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Is it possible to modify the inputs to a derivation made by callPackage in nixpkgs?

I would like to use a different implementation of mpi with mpi4py, but nixpkgs harcodes in openmpi (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/1c7f02b0b9f115ccbc122ce39ae99debc1af857a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix#L3798).

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you can override the inputs to packages:

mpi4py.override {
  mpi = ...;
}

This can also be done in ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix as:

mpi4py = {
  mpi = ...;
};
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Thanks so much! That’s exactly the answer I need.

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