How do I add my own custom attributes to existing built-in Python types? Like a string?

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Published on 2010-03-15T02:07:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 2:09 UTC
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I want to do something like this...

def helloWorld():
  print "Hello world!"
string.helloWorld = helloWorld
"foo".helloWorld()

Which would print out "Hello world!"

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