Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests

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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> On 11Oct2013 02:55, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > def undecorate(f):
> >     """Return the undecorated inner function from function f."""
> >     return f.func_closure[0].cell_contents
>
> Whereas this feels like black magic. Is this portable to any decorated
> function? If so, I'd have hoped it was in the stdlib. If not: black
> magic.

What would you expect? The purpose of decorating functions is to do
magic to make it appear as though the original function isn't there any
more. Any technique to getting at that original function anyway is *of
course* going to look like black magic at the implementation level.

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Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-10 07:00 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 09:12 +1100
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 02:55 +0000
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 14:13 +1100
        Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 04:36 +0000
          Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:23 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-11 14:42 +1100
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:17 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:25 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:32 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-11 10:51 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-10 19:44 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-10 21:12 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 02:37 -0700
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-12 08:38 +1100

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