Hi, sorry for the vague subject, but I can't come up with a better one so far.
I am currently writing a wrapper around ImageMagicks MagickWand library using the ctypes module. During this development i have to handle exceptions in an slightly different way, then python normally handles them. I am wrapping the libraries functionality in a class that looks like that. (I leave out the ctypes calls and stuff as far as it is possible.) class MagickWand(object): def __init__(self): self._wand = <create a MagickWand instance using ctypes> @my_funky_decorator def read_image(self, filename): return <ctypes call of the MagickWand C function to read an image> You can see, I plan to have my own MagickWand object, which wraps the C struct and functions. The normal habit of MagickWand is to call a function, that returns either True or False. Based on this the user has to check for an exception or not. I will have to wrap a lot of methods to get all the functionality I need. And the checking for an exception looks always the same. So I want to write short methods, which are decorated by my_funky_decorator which handles the error checking and exception handling. Sadly, this decorator needs access to self._wand from the current object. So far I can only think of a solution, where I have to do something like that. @my_funky_decorator(wand=<some way to access the _wand>) def read_image(self, filename): pass So, I like to ask, if someone could enlighten me how to implement the easy decorator I mentioned in my first "example". Thanks and best regards, Oliver -- Oliver Andrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- http://roughbook.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list