Accessing a decorator in a parent class from a child in Python

Question

How to access decorator from base class in child?

I assumed (erroneously) that ffg. will work:

class baseclass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print 'hey this is the base'

    def _deco(func):
        def wrapper(*arg):
            res = func(*arg)
            print 'I\'m a decorator. This is fabulous, but that colour, so last season sweetiedarling'
            return res
        return wrapper

    @_deco
    def basefunc(self):
        print 'I\'m a base function'

This class works fine, but then I create a child class that inherits from this:

class otherclass(baseclass):
    def __init__(self):
        super(otherclass, self).__init__()
        print 'other class'


    @_deco
    def meh(self):
        print 'I\'m a function'

It will not even be correctly imported, not to mention the launch. @_deco - undefined. An attempt by baseclass._deco throws an unbound method _deco () error, which is not surprising.

Any idea how to do this, I would really like to encapsulate the decorator in the class, but I am not married to this idea, and I would have to name it in the base and child class.

Answer 1

class baseclass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print 'hey this is the base'

    def _deco(func):
        def wrapper(*arg):
            res = func(*arg)
            print 'I\'m a decorator. This is fabulous, but that colour, so last season sweetiedarling'
            return res
        return wrapper

    @_deco
    def basefunc(self):
        print 'I\'m a base function'

    @_deco
    def basefunc2(self):
        print "I'm another base function"

   #no more uses of _deco in this class
    _deco = staticmethod(_deco) 
   # this is the key. it must be executed after all of the uses of _deco in 
   # the base class. this way _deco is some sort weird internal function that 
   # can be called from within the class namespace while said namespace is being 
   # created and a proper static method for subclasses or external callers.


class otherclass(baseclass):
    def __init__(self):
        super(otherclass, self).__init__()
        print 'other class'


    @baseclass._deco
    def meh(self):
        print 'I\'m a function'