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by hmry 339 days ago
Some examples that come to mind: You can inspect the call stack, and get a list of local variables of your callers. You can assign to object.__class__ to dynamically change an existing object's class at runtime. You can overwrite every operator, including obj.field access, dynamically at runtime (including changing an existing class)
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a long time ago, there was Parrot and a bet with Guido https://justatheory.com/2004/08/oscon-notes/