Can I combine two decorators into a single one in Python?

Question

Is there a way to combine two decorators into one new decorator in python?

I realize I can just apply multiple decorators to a function, but I was curious as to whet

Answer 1

If you don't want to repeat yourself too much in a test suite, you could do like this::

def apply_patches(func):
    @functools.wraps(func)
    @mock.patch('foo.settings.USE_FAKE_CONNECTION', False)
    @mock.patch('foo.settings.DATABASE_URI', 'li://foo')
    @mock.patch('foo.connection.api.Session.post', autospec=True)
    def _(*args, **kwargs):
        return func(*args, **kwargs)

    return _

now you can use that in your test suite instead of a crazy amount of decorators above each function::

def ChuckNorrisCase(unittest.TestCase):
    @apply_patches
    def test_chuck_pwns_none(self):
        self.assertTrue(None)