Is there an official way to add methods to an instance?

[Charles Mason]

And for such a behavior they've termed "monkeying"

Thus, the coinage "Monkeypatching" for what you want to do:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076194.html

There are a group of people who think "monkeypatching is destroying ruby."

You still probably should avoid it for production code.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:25 AM, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:

> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> > Paul Rubin a écrit :
> >> Brian Vanderburg II <BrianVanderburg2 at aim.com> writes:
> >>> I've checked out some ways to get this to work.  I want to be able to
> >>> add a new function to an instance of an object.
> >>
> >> Ugh.  Avoid that if you can.
> >
> > Why so ? OO is about objects, not classes, and adding methods on a
> > per-object basis is perfectly legitimate.
>
>    It's what professional programmers call a "l33t feature",
> one not suitable for production code.  Typically such features
> are used by programmers with about two years experience,
> trying too hard to prove that they're cool.
>
>                                John Nagle
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