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Re: Using decorators with argument in Python

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On 2:59 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> Can any of you guys explain me advantages and disadvantages of
>> using each of them
> Simplicity is one, using @decor() means you have at least three-level
> nested functions, which means the code is likely to be very huge and
> perhaps unnecessarily.

Bruce Eckel pointed out (
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240808) that the
result of "decoration" need not be a function. Instead, it can be an
object (instance of a user-defined class) that's callable (because the
class implements a __call__ method).

Investigating how this fact fit in with the current thread, I came up
with an alternative to the three levels of "def" (pronounced "three
levels of death"). Following is code for two decorators:

* the first one encloses the output of a function with lines of "#"
characters, and is used like this:

     @enclose
     myfun(...

* the second one encloses the output of a function with lines of a
user-specified character, and is used like this:

     @enclose("&")
     myfun(...

Here's the Python2 code for each one:

################## decorator to be called with no argument

class enclose:
    """
    class that can be used as a function decorator:
    prints a line of "#" before/after the function's output
    """
    def __init__(self, funarg):
        self.func = funarg
    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print "\n" + "#" * 50
        self.func(*args, **kwargs)
        print "#" * 50 + "\n"

################## decorator to be called with argument

def enclose(repeat_char):
    """
    function that returns a class that can be used as a decorator:
    prints a line of <repeat_char> before/after the function's output
    """
    class _class_to_use_as_decorator:
        def __init__(self, funarg):
            self.func = funarg
        def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            print "\n" + repeat_char * 50
            self.func(*args, **kwargs)
            print repeat_char * 50 + "\n"

    return _class_to_use_as_decorator


Best,
John

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Using decorators with argument in Python Jigar Tanna <poisonousrattle5@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 09:52 -0700
  Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 03:06 +1000
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python John Posner <jjposner@codicesoftware.com> - 2011-06-29 13:23 -0400
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-29 12:30 -0700
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 13:29 -0600
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-29 14:29 -0700
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 15:26 -0600
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-29 14:51 -0700
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-30 09:00 +0000
    Re: Using decorators with argument in Python John Posner <jjposner@codicesoftware.com> - 2011-07-01 11:18 -0400
  Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 11:20 -0600
  Re: Using decorators with argument in Python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-29 08:19 +1000

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