Ok, that post may have a few(dozen?) problems in it. I got glitched by idles not clearing variables between runs, so it worked for me because it was getting values from a previous run.
This should work better, fixed a few things, too.
The decorators can now take more than one argument. The function and arguments lists initialize correctly now.
Ron:
I've followed your attempts to understand decorators with interest, and have seen you engage in conversation with many luminaries of the Python community, so I hesitate at this point to interject my own remarks.
In a spirit of helpfulness, however, I have to ask whether your understanding of decorators is different from mine because you don't understand them or because I don't.
You have several times mentioned the possibility of a decorator taking more than one argument, but in my understanding of decorators this just wouldn't make sense. A decorator should (shouldn't it) take precisely one argument (a function or a method) and return precisely one value (a decorated function or method).
It doesn't work with functions with more than one variable. It seems tuples don't unpack when given to a function as an argument. Any way to force it?
class Decorator(object):
[...]
Perhaps we need to get back to basics?
Do you understand what I mean when I say a decorator should take one function as its argument and it should return a function?
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