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

A MonkeyPatch is a piece of Python code which extends or modifies other code at runtime (typically at startup).

A simple example looks like this:

from SomeOtherProduct.SomeModule import SomeClass

def speak(self):
    return "ook ook eee eee eee!"

SomeClass.speak = speak

Source: MonkeyPatch page on Zope wiki.