Adding base class to existing object in python

Question

I have several objects of different kinds (different function names, different signatures) and I monkey patch them to have a common way to access them from different functio

Answer 1

Dynamically modifying an object's type is reasonably safe, as long as the extra base class is compatible (and you'll get an exception if it isn't). The simplest way to add a base class is with the 3-argument type constructor:

cls = object.__class__
object.__class__ = cls.__class__(cls.__name__ + "WithExtraBase", (cls, ExtraBase), {})