dunder-docs (was Python is DOOMED! Again!)

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 4 01:22:36 EST 2015


Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Er, perhaps "code injection" is not the best name for this, on account of it 
> also being the name for a security vulnerability anti-pattern:
> 
> I'm talking about a variety of dependency injection where you either add an 
> entirely new method to an instance, or give the instance it's own custom 
> method overriding the one declared in the class.

I think the term you're after is "monkeypatching".

-- 
Greg



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