[Python-Dev] Monkeypatching idioms -- elegant or ugly? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 15 22:51:25 CET 2008
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On Jan 15, 2008 1:27 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Second, a "metaclass" to add a number of methods (or other attributes) > to an existing class, using a convenient class notation:
I think this is similar to my "partial" classes: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/partial
Indeed it is. I guess my only innovation is realizing that you don't have to create a real metaclass -- you can set metaclass to a function that does the magic. I like your feature of refusing overrides unless flagged with @replace.
I think that despite the objection that monkeypatching shoudn't be made too easy, it's worth at looking into a unification of the API, features, and implementation.
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