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30th January 2008 - Link Blog

Monkeypatching idioms - elegant or ugly? Guido offers a decorator and a metaclass as syntactic sugar for monkeypatching existing Python classes.

Posted 30th January 2008 at 12:39 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 30th January 2008.

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