Decorating one method of a class C with another method of class C?

[Ben Finney]

Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to have simple operations on that socket like "list
> configured hosts", "allow connection to host", etc. And I'd like them
> to be decorated with "reconnected_to_server_if_needed".

The ‘reconnected_to_server_if_needed’ method, if I understand
your original post correctly, does not need the class nor the class
instance. So you can define that function outside the class, and use it
for decorating methods within the class.

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Ben Finney