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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: generators as decorators simple issue
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:47:02 +0100
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:22:31 -0700 (PDT), pyjoshsys 
<j.m.dagenhart@gmail.com> wrote:
> The output is still not what I want. Now runtime error free, 
however the output is not what I desire.

> def setname(cls):
>     '''this is the proposed generator to call SetName on the 
object'''

>     try:
>         cls.SetName(cls.__name__)
>     except Exception as e:
>         print e
>     finally:
>         return cls

I would write the function above in one line:

cls.name = name


> class Trial(object):
>     '''class to demonstrate with'''
>     def __init__(self):
>         object.__init__(self)
>         self.name = None

Remove the line above. The instance attribute self.name is hiding the 
class attribute cls.name.

Oscar