[Python-ideas] New Python syntax for continuing definitions for existing classes

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 14 01:40:07 EDT 2016


Chris Angelico wrote:

> Yes. You could tweak that by looking at cls.__module__ and grab it
> from sys.modules, but I kept the example simple. However, I would NOT
> use the standard name lookup mechanism.

Most classes in builtins won't let you monkeypatch them
anyway, so I'm not sure it's worth the bother of trying
to protect against that.

-- 
Greg


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