Python decorators that are part of a base class cannot be used to decorate member functions in inherited classes

Question

Python decorators are fun to use, but I appear to have hit a wall due to the way arguments are passed to decorators. Here I have a decorator defined as part of a base class

Answer 1

You need to make UpdateGUI a @classmethod, and make your wrapper aware of self. A working example:

class X(object):
    @classmethod
    def foo(cls, fun):
        def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
            self.write(*args, **kwargs)
            return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
        return wrapper

    def write(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print(args, kwargs)

class Y(X):
    @X.foo
    def bar(self, x):
        print("x:", x)

Y().bar(3)
# prints:
#   (3,) {}
#   x: 3