Using descriptors to wrap methods

[Sean Ross]

"Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at erols.com> wrote in message
news:408cfa5a$0$28920$61fed72c at news.rcn.com...
> Here is a stripped-down version of a Python Cookbook recipe. Is there a
> simpler, more Pythonical, natural way of doing this?
>

def wrap(f):
    def wrapped(*args, **kwds):
        print 'pre'
        result = f(*args, **kwds)
        print 'post'
        return result
    return wrapped