Python functools.wraps equivalent for classes

Question

When defining a decorator using a class, how do I automatically transfer over__name__, __module__ and __doc__? Normally, I would use

Answer 1

I'm not aware of such things in stdlib, but we can create our own if we need to.

Something like this can work :

from functools import WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS


def class_wraps(cls):
    """Update a wrapper class `cls` to look like the wrapped."""

    class Wrapper(cls):
        """New wrapper that will extend the wrapper `cls` to make it look like `wrapped`.

        wrapped: Original function or class that is beign decorated.
        assigned: A list of attribute to assign to the the wrapper, by default they are:
             ['__doc__', '__name__', '__module__', '__annotations__'].

        """

        def __init__(self, wrapped, assigned=WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS):
            self.__wrapped = wrapped
            for attr in assigned:
                setattr(self, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr))

            super().__init__(wrapped)

        def __repr__(self):
            return repr(self.__wrapped)

    return Wrapper

Usage:

@class_wraps
class memoized:
    """Decorator that caches a function's return value each time it is called.
    If called later with the same arguments, the cached value is returned, and
    not re-evaluated.
    """

    def __init__(self, func):
        super().__init__()
        self.func = func
        self.cache = {}

    def __call__(self, *args):
        try:
            return self.cache[args]
        except KeyError:
            value = self.func(*args)
            self.cache[args] = value
            return value
        except TypeError:
            # uncacheable -- for instance, passing a list as an argument.
            # Better to not cache than to blow up entirely.
            return self.func(*args)

    def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
        return functools.partial(self.__call__, obj)


@memoized
def fibonacci(n):
    """fibonacci docstring"""
    if n in (0, 1):
       return n
    return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)


print(fibonacci)
print("__doc__: ", fibonacci.__doc__)
print("__name__: ", fibonacci.__name__)

Output:

__doc__:  fibonacci docstring
__name__:  fibonacci

EDIT:

And if you are wondering why this wasn't included in the stdlib is because you can wrap your class decorator in a function decorator and use functools.wraps like this:

def wrapper(f):

    memoize = memoized(f)

    @functools.wraps(f)
    def helper(*args, **kws):
        return memoize(*args, **kws)

    return helper


@wrapper
def fibonacci(n):
    """fibonacci docstring"""
    if n <= 1:
       return n
    return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)