Yeah, monkey-patching is pretty much what it sounds like: a monkey ripping stuff out of and bolting stuff onto everything with a wrench. But despite how incredi

Yeah, monkey-patching is pretty much what it sounds like: a monkey ripping stuff out of and bolting stuff onto everything with a wrench. But despite how incredibly ugly and complex it sounds and how much any decent programmer shudders at the thought of it, in practice it seems most people never really run into issues with it if they're using pure-Python non-asyncio libraries. And the external API they provide is really clean; you generally don't have to think about any of the internals. You just use everything exactly like you already would and pepper in straightforward abstractions like gevent.Pool and gevent.spawn. Internally, it might be the antithesis of Pythonic, but the external interface and developer experience is very Pythonic.