Question

Basically, what I want is to do this:

class B:
    def fn(self):
        print 'B'

class A:
    def fn(self):
        print 'A'

@extendInherit
class C(A,B):
    pass

c=C()
c.fn()

And have the output be

A
B

How would I implement the extendInherit decorator?

Answer 1

This is not a job for decorators. You want to completely change the normal behaviour of a class, so this is actually a job for a metaclass.

import types

class CallAll(type):
    """ MetaClass that adds methods to call all superclass implementations """
    def __new__(meta, clsname, bases, attrs):
        ## collect a list of functions defined on superclasses
        funcs = {}
        for base in bases:
            for name, val in vars(base).iteritems():
                if type(val) is types.FunctionType:
                    if name in funcs:
                        funcs[name].append( val )
                    else:
                        funcs[name] = [val]

        ## now we have all methods, so decorate each of them
        for name in funcs:
            def caller(self, *args,**kwargs):
                """ calls all baseclass implementations """
                for func in funcs[name]:
                    func(self, *args,**kwargs)
            attrs[name] = caller

        return type.__new__(meta, clsname, bases, attrs)

class B:
    def fn(self):
        print 'B'

class A:
    def fn(self):
        print 'A'

class C(A,B, object):
    __metaclass__=CallAll

c=C()
c.fn()