On Sat, 16 May 2009 09:55:39 -0700, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > Hi everybody, > > let's assume I have a module with loads of classes inheriting from one > class, from the same module, i.e.: [...] > Now, let's also assume that myFile.py cannot be changed or it's > impractical to do so. Is there a way to replace the SuperClass at > runtime, so that when I instantiate one of the subclasses NewSuperClass > is used instead of the original SuperClass provided by the first module > module?
That's called "monkey patching" or "duck punching". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/MonkeyPatch http://everything2.com/title/monkey%2520patch -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
