Is decorators in python example of monkey patching technique?
<p>Recently I was reading about monkey patching technique and wondered if it can be said.</p>

<p>I suppose on some grammatical level they may be equivalent. However, decorators are applied at the time a function or class is defined, and monkeypatching modifies an object at runtime, making them very different both in spirit and in actual use. </p>

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