[Python-Dev] Proposed tweaks to functools.wraps (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 11 12:45:51 CEST 2010

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:30:40 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

The second (#9396) came up in the context of the new cache decorators added to functools, and allowing applications to choose their own caching strategies. I suggested exposing the original (uncached) function, and Raymond suggested that the easiest way to enable that would be for functools.updatewrapper to add a new attribute that provides a reference to the original function. Some time back, we considered doing this automatically as an integral part of decoration, but decided that wasn't appropriate. However, building it into the explicit wrapping functions makes sense to me. To avoid namespace conflicts, I plan to use "wraps" as the name for the reference to the original function.

I think it should be "wrapped".

Regards

Antoine.

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