Conditional decoration

[MRAB]

On 18/06/2012 23:16, Roy Smith wrote:
> Is there any way to conditionally apply a decorator to a function?
> For example, in django, I want to be able to control, via a run-time
> config flag, if a view gets decorated with @login_required().
>
> @login_required()
> def my_view(request):
>      pass
>
A decorator is just syntactic sugar for function application after the
definition.

This:

     @deco
     def func():
         pass

is just another way of writing:

     def func():
         pass
     func = deco(func)

Not as neat, but you can make it conditional.