toggling decorators

Question

What\'s the best way to toggle decorators on and off, without actually going to each decoration and commenting it out? Say you have a benchmarking decorator:

Answer 1

I don't think anyone has suggested this yet:

benchmark_modules = set('mod1', 'mod2') # Load this from a config file

def benchmark(func):
  if not func.__module__ in benchmark_modules:
      return func

  def decorator():
    # fancy benchmarking 
  return decorator

Each function or method has a __module__ attribute that is the name of the module where the function is defined. Create a whitelist (or blacklist if you prefer) of modules where benchmarking is to occur, and if you don't want to benchmark that module just return the original undecorated function.