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

Are you sure you want to use a class decorator and not simply inheritance? For instance, instead of a decorator to replace your class with a subclass introducing some methods, perhaps you want a mixin class and to use multiple inheritance to create the final class?

This would be accomplished by something like

class MyMixIn(object):
    def __init__(self):
        super(MyMixIn, self).__init__()

class BaseClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        print "class: %s" % self.__class__.__name__
    def print_class(self):
        print "class: %s" % self.__class__.__name__

class SubClassAgain(BaseClass, MyMixIn):
    def print_class(self):
        super(SubClassAgain, self).print_class()

sca = SubClassAgain()
sca.print_class()