What is monkey patching?

Question

I am trying to understand, what is monkey patching or a monkey patch?

Is that something like methods/operators overloading or delegating?

Does it have anyt

Answer 1

What is monkey patching? Monkey patching is a technique used to dynamically update the behavior of a piece of code at run-time.

Why use monkey patching? It allows us to modify or extend the behavior of libraries, modules, classes or methods at runtime without actually modifying the source code

Conclusion Monkey patching is a cool technique and now we have learned how to do that in Python. However, as we discussed, it has its own drawbacks and should be used carefully.

For more info Please refer [1]: https://medium.com/@nagillavenkatesh1234/monkey-patching-in-python-explained-with-examples-25eed0aea505