avoid patching

[gianscarpe]

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Workin on issue #6030
@awaelchli

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[pep8speaks]

Hello @gianscarpe! Thanks for updating this PR.

• In the file pytorch_lightning/trainer/data_loading.py:

Line 246:121: E501 line too long (140 > 120 characters)

Comment last updated at 2021-05-13 08:55:55 UTC

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #7522 (e30ec01) into release/1.3.x (b9b3ec5) will decrease coverage by 48%.
The diff coverage is 9%.

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- Coverage             92%     43%    -48%     
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- Hits               11922    5650   -6272     
- Misses              1071    7348   +6277     

[gianscarpe]

@awaelchli I rebased on release 1.3.x. Actually I need to re-take this as it's been a few months since my last commit

[rohitgr7]

@awaelchli shall we close this one?

[awaelchli]

Yes
@gianscarpe did a great job starting here but we didn't understand the complexity fully back then, and now the PR is quite conflicted. Closing in favor of #9764