[Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope27/lib/python/TAL - TALInterpreter.py:1.68.26.2

[Matt Behrens]

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On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 07:49:28AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> What on earth is "monkey-patching"?  From the patch, it looks like you
> mean "overriding a method."

Well, that's pretty much it -- replacing a function or class or
something in an already-loaded module.  Most (all?) hotfixes use
this mechanism.

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Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> <URL:http://zigg.com/>

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