Can a decorator of an instance method access the class?

Question

I have something roughly like the following. Basically I need to access the class of an instance method from a decorator used upon the instance method in its definition.

Answer 1

Function doesn't know whether it's a method at definition point, when the decorator code runs. Only when it's accessed via class/instance identifier it may know its class/instance. To overcome this limitation, you may decorate by descriptor object to delay actual decorating code until access/call time:

class decorated(object):
    def __init__(self, func, type_=None):
        self.func = func
        self.type = type_

    def __get__(self, obj, type_=None):
        func = self.func.__get__(obj, type_)
        print('accessed %s.%s' % (type_.__name__, func.__name__))
        return self.__class__(func, type_)

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        name = '%s.%s' % (self.type.__name__, self.func.__name__)
        print('called %s with args=%s kwargs=%s' % (name, args, kwargs))
        return self.func(*args, **kwargs)

This allows you to decorate individual (static|class) methods:

class Foo(object):
    @decorated
    def foo(self, a, b):
        pass

    @decorated
    @staticmethod
    def bar(a, b):
        pass

    @decorated
    @classmethod
    def baz(cls, a, b):
        pass

class Bar(Foo):
    pass

Now you can use decorator code for introspection...

>>> Foo.foo
accessed Foo.foo
>>> Foo.bar
accessed Foo.bar
>>> Foo.baz
accessed Foo.baz
>>> Bar.foo
accessed Bar.foo
>>> Bar.bar
accessed Bar.bar
>>> Bar.baz
accessed Bar.baz

...and for changing function behavior:

>>> Foo().foo(1, 2)
accessed Foo.foo
called Foo.foo with args=(1, 2) kwargs={}
>>> Foo.bar(1, b='bcd')
accessed Foo.bar
called Foo.bar with args=(1,) kwargs={'b': 'bcd'}
>>> Bar.baz(a='abc', b='bcd')
accessed Bar.baz
called Bar.baz with args=() kwargs={'a': 'abc', 'b': 'bcd'}