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In the entry from a Python fan Ruby Style Adding Methods to Existing Classes in Python? you look into the comments to see the following code:

class Foo:

def __init__(self):

self.x = “x = 1?

self.y = “y = 2?

def showx(self):

print self.x

def showy(self):

print self.y

if __name__ == ‘__main__’:

# Attach at runtime…

Foo.showy = showy

f2 = Foo()

f2.showx()

f2.showy()

The whitespace is lost, and this code is hard to read at best.

At least if curly-code is misformatted (which is frequent too) you can paste it into your IDE of choice and autoformat.