Explanation of a decorator class in python

Question

While reading up about some python module I encountered this decorator class:

# this decorator lets me use methods as both static and instance methods
class omni         


        

Answer 1

omnimethod does what it says in the comment; it will let you call some_function as either a 'static function' on a class or as a function on an instance of the class. @property is a standard decorator (see the python docs) that exposes a function in a way that makes it look like a simple instance variable.

class B:
  @omnimethod
  def test(self):
    print 1

  @property
  def prop(self):
    return 2

>>> b = B()
>>> b.test()
1
>>> B.test()
1
>>> b.prop
2