Monkey patching a class in another module in Python

Question

I\'m working with a module written by someone else. I\'d like to monkey patch the __init__ method of a class defined in the module. The examples I have found sh

Answer 1

Use mock library.

import thirdpartymodule_a
import thirdpartymodule_b
import mock

def new_init(self):
    self.a = 43

with mock.patch.object(thirdpartymodule_a.SomeClass, '__init__', new_init):
    thirdpartymodule_b.dosomething() # -> print 43
thirdpartymodule_b.dosomething() # -> print 42

or

import thirdpartymodule_b
import mock

def new_init(self):
    self.a = 43

with mock.patch('thirdpartymodule_a.SomeClass.__init__', new_init):
    thirdpartymodule_b.dosomething()
thirdpartymodule_b.dosomething()