Access self from decorator

Question

In setUp() method of unittest I\'ve setup some self variables, which are later referenced in actual tests. I\'ve also created a decorator to do some logging. Is the

Answer 1

Since you're decorating a method, and self is a method argument, your decorator has access to self at runtime. Obviously not at parsetime, because there are no objects yet, just a class.

So you change your decorator to:

def decorator(func):
    def _decorator(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # access a from TestSample
        print 'self is %s' % self
        return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
    return _decorator