Class Decorators, Inheritance, super(), and maximum recursion

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to use decorators on subclasses that use super(). Since my class decorator creates another subclass a decorated class seems to pre

Answer 1

The decorator creates a kind-of diamond inheritance situation. You can avoid these problems by not using super(). Changing SubClassAgain to the following will prevent infinite recursion:

@class_decorator
class SubClassAgain(BaseClass):
    def print_class(self):
        BaseClass.print_class(self)