Passing parameters thru decorators

[andrew.holway at otternetworks.de]

Hi,

I'm trying to work out how to pass parameters through decorators:

class Meow():

    def __init__(self, arg1, arg2):
        print("INIT ClassBasedDecoratorWithParams")
        print(arg1)
        print(arg2)

    def makebold(self, fn):
            def wrapped():
                return "<b>" + fn() + "</b>"
            return wrapped

banana = Meow("foo", "bar")
@banana.makebold("foobar")

def hello():
    return "hello world"

print(hello())


Returns error: 
INIT ClassBasedDecoratorWithParams
Traceback (most recent call last):
foo
  File "/Users/andrew/PycharmProjects/untitled3/meow5.py", line 15, in <module>
bar
    @banana.makebold("foobar")
TypeError: wrapped() takes 0 positional arguments but 1 was given


so I add a var to wrapped:

    def makebold(self, fn):
            def wrapped(flibble):
                print(flibble)
                return "<b>" + fn() + "</b>"
            return wrapped

Returns error:
INIT ClassBasedDecoratorWithParams
Traceback (most recent call last):
foo
bar
  File "/Users/andrew/PycharmProjects/untitled3/meow5.py", line 16, in <module>
<function hello at 0x1029198c8>
    @banana.makebold("foobar")
  File "/Users/andrew/PycharmProjects/untitled3/meow5.py", line 11, in wrapped
    return "<b>" + fn() + "</b>"
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

This is confusing me. How do I get hold of the "foobar" string so I can use it in the decorator?

Cheers,

Andrew