[Answer]-Good workflow to manage modified Django third party modules

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What you are describing is a difficult problem that does not have a good solution. I would generally copy the module into my own project, but I would only do that as a last resort, and I have not had to do so yet.

Instead, if I’m using a module and it has a class Foo that isn’t quite what I need. I will do:

class MyFoo(Foo):
    ...

and override whatever methods I need to. Then, I just use MyFoo in my project. This generally gives me the behavior I need without resorting to modifying the module’s code.

But in general, if I’m inclined to modify the module’s source code, I will first look extensively for alternatives. So far, I’ve been able to avoid it.

👤DavidM

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