R. David Murray added the comment: Decorators are called with the decorated *function* objection when the class is compiled. There can be no instance involved by their very nature, since the instance doesn't exist yet. So no, you can't have a decorator that affects instance attributes at the compile step. You *can* have a decorator that *effectively* manipulates instance attributes by returning a wrapper function, which will receive self when called, and can do whatever it wants.
There is no bug here, nor any need for a feature. You can already do what you want, you just have to write your decorator correctly. You can even have it as a static method of the class, though I'm not sure I'd consider that good style (but people's opinions on style differ). ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29848> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
