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

Monkey patching can only be done in dynamic languages, of which python is a good example. Changing a method at runtime instead of updating the object definition is one example;similarly, adding attributes (whether methods or variables) at runtime is considered monkey patching. These are often done when working with modules you don't have the source for, such that the object definitions can't be easily changed.

This is considered bad because it means that an object's definition does not completely or accurately describe how it actually behaves.