Does class patching actually work

[John Nagle]

James Stroud wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:

>> The intent of this is to replace method open_https of class URLopener
>> with a local, patched version.
>>
>> Does that actually work?  When I've tried to do that in other code, it
>> seems to have no effect.  In fact, I can write
>>
>>     URLopener.open_https = None
>>
>> and nothing changes.

    My mistake.  Confusion between

	import a.b
	c = foo

and

	import a
	b.c = foo

which result in different namespaces.

					John Nagle