Question

There’s a function that is wrapped by a decorator that returns the output of the function as HTML. I’d like to call that function without the HTML-wrapping of the decorator. Is that even possible?

Example:

class a:
    @HTMLwrapper
    def returnStuff(input):
        return awesome_dict

    def callStuff():
        # here I want to call returnStuff without the @HTMLwrapper, 
        # i just want the awesome dict.

Answer 1

class a:
    @HTMLwrapper
    def return_stuff_as_html(self, input):
        return self.return_stuff(input)
    def return_stuff(self, input):
        return awesome_dict

I did the same thing while waiting for a response and it works fine for me, but I’d still like to know if there’s an even better way 🙂 – olofom

Since in python functions and methods are objects, and since a decorator returns a callable, you could set an attribute on the decorated method pointing to original method, but a call like my_object_instance.decorated_method.original_method() would be uglier and less explicit.

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