Conditional decoration

[Jeremiah Dodds]

roy at panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

> Is there any way to conditionally apply a decorator to a function?
> For example, in django, I want to be able to control, via a run-time
> config flag, if a view gets decorated with @login_required().
>
> @login_required()
> def my_view(request):
>     pass

You could write a decorator that takes the value of the flag and either
does nothing or decorates it's target function.