decorators only when __debug__ == True

[LX]

On Mar 29, 7:11 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:54:26 -0700, LX wrote:
> > Hi all, I have a question about decorators. I would like to use them for
> > argument checking, and pre/post conditions. However, I don't want the
> > additional overhead when I run in non-debug mode. I could do something
> > like this, using a simple trace example.
>
> def decorator(func):
>     if __debug__:
>         @functools.wraps(func)
>         def inner(*args, **kwargs):
>             preprocess()
>             result = func(*args, **kwargs)
>             postprocess()
>             return result
>         return inner
>     else:
>         return func
>
> --
> Steven

Actually, I am using "decorator" from Michele Simionato's decorator.py
file, at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator.