I'd like to make a claim about the following example, that
update_wrapper should be improved to preserve the behavior of known,
built-in decorators. In this case, I'm talking about staticmethod.
The order I list here feels natural, but it obviously doesn't work.
The only reason it doesn't seems to be that it is trying to decorate
the descriptor, not the function itself. This is expected, but it
could certainly be smart enough to detect a descriptor and attempt to
get the actual callable underneath, could it not? It would not work
for all cases, of course.
>>> def d(f):
... def nf(*a, **kw):
... print "decorated function called"
... return f(*a, **kwargs)
... functools.update_wrapper(nf, f)
... return nf
...
>>> class A(object):
... @d
... @staticmethod
... def a(self):
... print "a"
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 3, in A
File "<stdin>", line 5, in d
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/functools.py", line 33, in update_wrapper
setattr(wrapper, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr))
AttributeError: 'staticmethod' object has no attribute '__module__'
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