I have something roughly like the following. Basically I need to access the class of an instance method from a decorator used upon the instance method in its definition. def decorator(view): # do something that requires view's class print view.im_class return view class ModelA(object): @decorator def a_method(self): # do some stuff pass The code as-is gives: AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'im_class' I found similar question/answers - Python decorator makes function forget that it belongs to a class and Get class in Python decorator - but these rely upon a workaround that grabs the instance at run-time by snatching the first parameter. In my case, I will be calling the method based upon the information gleaned from its class, so I can't wait for a call to come in. Continue reading...
