On 6/18/2012 3:16 PM Roy Smith said... > Is there any way to conditionally apply a decorator to a function? > For example, in django, I want to be able to control, via a run-time > config flag, if a view gets decorated with @login_required(). >> @login_required() > def my_view(request): > pass class myDecorator(object): def __init__(self, f): self.f = f def __call__(self): print "Entering", self.f.__name__ self.f() print "Exited", self.f.__name__ def null(a): return a #if condition: myDecorator = null @myDecorator def aFunction(): print "aFunction running" aFunction() Cobbled together from http://www.chrisevans3d.com/pub_blog/?p=530 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3687046/python-sphinx-autodoc-and-decorated-members HTH Emile