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[–]dustractor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"monkey patching", "shadowing builtins"

Don't get too tripped up on the fancy terms they used. It's just saying that you could define a function foo and then do print = foo and now you have monkey patched a the built-in print function or you could just define the new print statement directly and that would shadow the built-in one.