Hi group,
I'm a bit confused regarding decorators. Recently started playing with
them with Python3 and wanted (as an excercise) to implement a simple
type checker first: I know there are lots of them out there, this is
actually one of the reasons I chose that particular function (to compare
my solution against other, proven solutions).
Starting with a blank slate, I did something along the lines of:
class _TypeCheckedFunction():
def __init__(self, decoratedfunction):
self._decoratedfunction = decoratedfunction
def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
[...] Actual checking
def typecheck(wrappedfunction):
checkfunction = _TypeCheckedFunction(wrappedfunction)
functools.update_wrapper(checkfunction, wrappedfunction)
return checkfunction
And decorate my methods like
@typecheck
def setbar(self, bar: str):
This works somewhat. The problem is, however, when the method is
actually called. This is what happens:
1. The decorator is called upon import of the decorated class. It
creates a _TypeCheckedFunction(setbar) object.
2. When setbar is actually called (blubb.setbar("fooobar")), the
__call__ method of the previously created _TypeCheckedFunction is invoked.
3. When trying to call self._decoratedfunction from within that object,
this fails: "self" is missing! self._decoratedfunction is only the
*function*, not the bound function of the object that contains setbar().
Therefore I cannot proceed here.
Solutions that I have seen working usually consist of two functions
wrapped in each other, but I do not know why the additional introduction
of a class makes everything fail.
Can someone please enlighten me?
Best regards,
Henrik
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