dynamically adding functions to a Python module

Question

Our framework requires wrapping certain functions in some ugly boilerplate code:

def prefix_myname_suffix(obj):
    def actual():
        print \'hello world         


        

Answer 1

use either

current_module.new_name = func

or

setattr(current_module, new_name, func)

Answer 2

It seems the solution to your problem would be to make the decorated function act as the original function.

Try using the function mergeFunctionMetadata from Twisted, found here: twisted/python/util.py

It makes your decorated function act as the original, hopefully making the framework pick it up.