> So decorators will never take instance variables as arguments (nor should >they, since no instance > can possibly exist when they execute).
Right, I never thought of it that way, my only use of them has been trivial, in non class scenarios so far. > Bear in mind, a decorator should take a callable as an argument (and any > number of 'static' parameters > you want to assign it), and return another callable. Got it, and thanks for the detail as well! jlc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list