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ergo14 on Feb 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monolith First (2015)

I don't think we've ended up with libs that share state in a dangerous way, maybe we got lucky.

lmm on Feb 20, 2021 [–]

Modules are global singletons, class definitions are global singletons. Monkeypatching is less common in Python than Ruby but I'd still consider it a significant risk.

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