Using the same decorator (with arguments) with functions and methods

Question

I have been trying to create a decorator that can be used with both functions and methods in python. This on it\'s own is not that hard, but when creating a decorator that

Answer 1

A partial (specific) solution I have come up with relies on exception handling. I am attempting to create a decorator to only allow certain HttpRequest methods, but make it work with both functions that are views, and methods that are views.

So, this class will do what I want:

class methods(object):
    def __init__(self, *_methods):
        self.methods = _methods

    def __call__(self, func): 
        @wraps(func)
        def inner(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                if args[0].method in self.methods:
                    return func(*args, **kwargs)
            except AttributeError:
                if args[1].method in self.methods:
                    return func(*args, **kwargs)
            return HttpResponseMethodNotAllowed(self.methods)
        return inner

Here are the two use cases: decorating a function:

@methods("GET")
def view_func(request, *args, **kwargs):
    pass

and decorating methods of a class:

class ViewContainer(object):
    # ...

    @methods("GET", "PUT")
    def object(self, request, pk, *args, **kwargs):
        # stuff that needs a reference to self...
        pass

Is there a better solution than to use exception handling?