Pythonista Modify Standard Library?

[awesomesniper86]

Hi all, I've recently gotten back into coding as a hobby, and I'm working on a mini project just to get back into the swing of things. For the project, I created a dictionary with a word for each letter using the NATO phonetic alphabet, but the variable declaration is long, annoying, and bloats the file. So I was wondering if there was a way to actually move that dictionary to the default package "string". It would be useful to be able to access in the future as well. If not, is there a way to "overwrite" the string package?
I have StaSH installed, but I can't reach default packages without root privileges, which it seems like might be impossible to get.
Thanks in advance!

[omz]

You can't modify the built-in standard library, but modules in the user site-packages folder (under Python Modules) will take precedence over modules in the built-in standard library, so you could put a copy of a standard library module there to "replace" (override) a built-in module.

[awesomesniper86]

Thank you so much!

[mmccthomas]

Ole, thats really interesting that built in or third party modules can be updated using this method.
I assume that it only applies to Python-only modules, which leads me to a question.
Is there a nice method to identify a python-only module?

awesomesniper86. I don’t think that adding your dictionary to a built in module is the way to go. It will be very fragile, and subject to updates in the future.
It sounds as though you need to create an external module containing a class to hold the dictionary and some accessor functions, such as: convert_string_to_NATO_phonetic, decode phonetics, speak phonetics (using speech module), and maybe Morse?
Chris