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

Dirty, but it works :

class SomeClass2(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 43
    def show(self):
        print self.a

import thirdpartymodule_b

# Monkey patch the class
thirdpartymodule_b.thirdpartymodule_a.SomeClass = SomeClass2

thirdpartymodule_b.dosomething()
# output 43