Mangle function name with decorator?

[Adam]

Thanks, Andrew.  I'm trying to accomplish something with a
metaprogramming flavor, where, for the convenience of the programmer
and the clarity of code, I'd like to have a decorator or some other
mechanism do twiddling behind the scenes to make a class do something
it wouldn't normally do.

Here's a less-obfuscated exmaple:  I want to build a framework for
creating MVC web applications in Python (I know, I know, there's
already 2^1bazillion of them) where a controller class can have
methods that respond to the same action but for different HTTP verbs:

class foo_controller(Controller):
    @GET
    def new(self):
        # Display the form to create a new foo

    @POST
    def new(self):
        # Receive a form post with new foo data in it

The Controller class will do all of the work behind the scenes to
makes sure that the correct method is called at run-time, but for the
sake of the programmer, I'd like to supply a clear, friendly syntax
like this.  Without a little metaprogramming magic, last-in-wins, and
only the second version of foo will end up in the class, so I'd like
to mangle the names to something that will result in a unique
attribute name and that the Controller class can work with behind the
scenes to do the right thing at run time.

So, Python experts, am I completely barking up the wrong tree here?