[Python-Dev] Monkeypatching idioms -- elegant or ugly?
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Jan 15 21:43:33 CET 2008
Guido van Rossum writes:
> I think it's useful to share these recipes,
But only to people who have demonstrated that they already know when,
why and how to monkeypatch on their own. Lisp's `defadvice' plays a
starring role in a number of my nightmares. Most recently, 15 minutes
ago.<wink>
Come to think of it, `defadvice' does have the advantage that it also
automatically monkeypatches the docstring to say "This function has
<class> advice", and with a little cooperation from the advisor can
also provide documentation of the changed semantics.
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