Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> writes: > Is there a way of decorating method1 of class C using method2 of class > C?
Can you give a concrete example (i.e. not merely hypothetical) where this would be a useful feature (i.e. an actual improvement over the absence of the feature), and why? > It seems like there's a chicken-and-the-egg problem; the class doesn't > seem to know what "self" is until later in execution so there's > apparently no way to specify @self.method2 when def'ing method1. You're referring specifically to instance methods, it seems. Right, there's no instance *of* the class during the *definition* of the class, so ‘self’ can't refer to such an instance. Also, an instance method needs to get the instance as the first parameter, whereas the decorator must accept the to-be-decorated function as its argument. So I don't see what you're trying to achieve, rather than the more straightforward and clearer use of a decorator function which *isn't* a method in the same class. Can you show a Simple, Self-Contained Complete Example to show us what you're trying to do? More importantly, why you think it should be done this way? -- \ “Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the | `\ hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily.” —hotel, Athens | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
