Python: shortcut for writing decorators which accept arguments?

Question

Does the Python standard library have a shortcut for writing decorators which accept arguments?

For example, if I want to write a decorator like with_timeout(timeo

Answer 1

First, we can define a little meta-decorator:

def decorator_with_arguments(wrapper):
    return lambda *args, **kwargs: lambda func: wrapper(func, *args, **kwargs)

That allows us to create decorators that accept arguments like so:

@decorator_with_arguments
def my_wrapper(func, *decorator_args, **decorator_kwargs):
    def wrapped(*call_args, **call_kwargs):
        print "from decorator:", decorator_args, decorator_kwargs
        func(*call_args, **call_kwargs)
    return wrapped

Which can then be used normally:

@my_wrapper(1, 2, 3)
def test(*args, **kwargs):
    print "passed directly:", args, kwargs

test(4, 5, 6)

Adding functools.wraps decoration is left as an exercise :)