"""functools.py - Tools for working with functions and callable objects """ # Python module wrapper for _functools C module # to allow utilities written in Python to be added # to the functools module. # Written by Nick Coghlan # Copyright (C) 2006 Python Software Foundation. # See C source code for _functools credits/copyright from _functools import partial # update_wrapper() and wraps() are tools to help write # wrapper functions that can handle naive introspection WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS = ('__module__', '__name__', '__doc__') WRAPPER_UPDATES = ('__dict__',) def update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped, assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS, updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES): """Update a wrapper function to look like the wrapped function wrapper is the function to be updated wrapped is the original function assigned is a tuple naming the attributes assigned directly from the wrapped function to the wrapper function (defaults to functools.WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS) updated is a tuple naming the attributes off the wrapper that are updated with the corresponding attribute from the wrapped function (defaults to functools.WRAPPER_UPDATES) """ for attr in assigned: setattr(wrapper, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr)) for attr in updated: getattr(wrapper, attr).update(getattr(wrapped, attr)) # Return the wrapper so this can be used as a decorator via partial() return wrapper def wraps(wrapped, assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS, updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES): """Decorator factory to apply update_wrapper() to a wrapper function Returns a decorator that invokes update_wrapper() with the decorated function as the wrapper argument and the arguments to wraps() as the remaining arguments. Default arguments are as for update_wrapper(). This is a convenience function to simplify applying partial() to update_wrapper(). """ return partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped, assigned=assigned, updated=updated)