method decorators and more on decorators

[Themis Bourdenas]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Gabriel Genellina
<gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>wrote:

> En Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:26:39 -0300, Themistoklis Bourdenas <
> tbourden at doc.ic.ac.uk> escribió:
>
> > On a related note, as the actual instance method of myclass is not foo
> but
> > decorate(foo), why are they called method decorators? This does not
> decorate
> > methods, they decorate functions and eventually the decorated functions
> > become methods. The name method decorator sounds a bit misleading to me.
>
> Where have you found it? I've always seen the expression "function
> decorator" or just "decorator", not "method decorator".
>

well a few occurrences of it can be found in PEP 318


>
> > So returning to my original question is there any way I can get the class
> > inside decorate()? I guess there is not, but just asking to make sure.
>
> "the class inside decorate"? What do you mean? The type of the x instance
> in an x.foo() call? That should be determined inside the wrapped function
> -when it is actually called-.
>
> Yes, what I was hoping is that it might be possible to get the name of the
class the function is eventually is going to be bound to, but I guess that's
not very likely to be possible. I wanted the name well before the function
is called, actually even before an instance of the class is created. Anyway,
I 've solved my problem with other means. Just out curiosity though, has
there been any talk about actual method decorators? I guess you can work
around them with the introduction of class decorators or even now with
meta-classes, but you have to wrap methods manually with no syntactic sugar.

Cheers,
Themis
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