Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to implement a decorator that would rename the method which > >> it decorates. Since it's a tricky thing in general involving all sorts > >> of __magic__ I thought I would ask around first before writing > >> something buggy :) > >> > >> It should work something like this: > >> > >> class myclass( object ): > >> @rename( 'hello' ) > >> def method( self ): > >> print 'ok' > >> > >> # tests > >> > >> inst = myclass( ) > >> inst.method( ) # raise an AttributeError > >> inst.hello( ) # prints 'ok' > >> myclass.method # raise an AttributeError > >> myclass.hello # prints <unbound method myclass.hello> > >> assert 'method' in dir( myclass ) is False > >> assert 'hello' in dir( myclass ) is True > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > > What is your use case? Why don't you just give the method the right name > > in the first place? :-) > > The use case is that I'm writing a turbogears application in which the > URLs are determined by the method names. People might want to change > these names if they want to change the URLs. One way would be to put > the method names into a turbogears configuration file and the @rename > decorator could fetch it from there.
Use a WSGI routing engine instead. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
