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Are you saying this because you can't monkey-patch literals? Because you can very much monkey-patch everything else in Python.

• steveklabnik 17y ago
  As far as I know, Python doesn't have open classes, right?
  • tghw 17y ago
    >>> def print_a(inst): ... print inst.a ... >>> class Foo(object): ... def __init__(self, a): ... self.a = a ... >>> Foo.print_my_a = print_a >>> f = Foo(5) >>> f.print_my_a() 5 Not sure why my previous post was downvoted, unless maybe your definition of monkey-patching is different than mine.
    • steveklabnik 17y ago
      Well, I didn't downvote it, but you can't do this with _everything_ in Python, like you can in Ruby. $ irb irb(main):001:0> class Numeric irb(main):002:1> def wtf irb(main):003:2> puts "hey" irb(main):004:2> end irb(main):005:1> end => nil irb(main):006:0> 5.wtf hey => nil