Surface apply_monkey_patches directly in the util namespace

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/botcore/utils/__init__.py b/botcore/utils/__init__.py
index 890f30da..07ded04d 100644
--- a/botcore/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/botcore/utils/__init__.py
@@ -1,14 +1,31 @@
 """Useful utilities and tools for Discord bot development."""
 
-from botcore.utils import (caching, channel, extensions, logging, members, monkey_patches, regex, scheduling)
+from botcore.utils import _monkey_patches, caching, channel, extensions, logging, members, regex, scheduling
+
+
+def apply_monkey_patches() -> None:
+    """
+    Applies all common monkey patches for our bots.
+
+    Patches :obj:`disnake.ext.commands.Command` and :obj:`disnake.ext.commands.Group` to support root aliases.
+        A ``root_aliases`` keyword argument is added to these two objects, which is a sequence of alias names
+        that will act as top-level groups rather than being aliases of the command's group.
+
+        It's stored as an attribute also named ``root_aliases``
+
+    Patches disnake's internal ``send_typing`` method so that it ignores 403 errors from Discord.
+        When under heavy load Discord has added a CloudFlare worker to this route, which causes 403 errors to be thrown.
+    """
+    _monkey_patches._apply_monkey_patches()
+
 
 __all__ = [
+    apply_monkey_patches,
     caching,
     channel,
     extensions,
     logging,
     members,
-    monkey_patches,
     regex,
     scheduling,
 ]
diff --git a/botcore/utils/monkey_patches.py b/botcore/utils/_monkey_patches.py
index abbb37a5..89238756 100644
--- a/botcore/utils/monkey_patches.py
+++ b/botcore/utils/_monkey_patches.py
@@ -62,19 +62,8 @@ def _patch_typing() -> None:
     http.HTTPClient.send_typing = honeybadger_type
 
 
-def apply_monkey_patches() -> None:
-    """
-    Applies all common monkey patches for our bots.
-
-    Patches :obj:`disnake.ext.commands.Command` and :obj:`disnake.ext.commands.Group` to support root aliases.
-        A ``root_aliases`` keyword argument is added to these two objects, which is a sequence of alias names
-        that will act as top-level groups rather than being aliases of the command's group.
-
-        It's stored as an attribute also named ``root_aliases``
-
-    Patches disnake's internal ``send_typing`` method so that it ignores 403 errors from Discord.
-        When under heavy load Discord has added a CloudFlare worker to this route, which causes 403 errors to be thrown.
-    """
+def _apply_monkey_patches() -> None:
+    """This is surfaced directly in botcore.utils.apply_monkey_patches()."""
     commands.command = partial(commands.command, cls=_Command)
     commands.GroupMixin.command = partialmethod(commands.GroupMixin.command, cls=_Command)