Question

This is more of a syntax error issue, I am trying to do this tutorial on Python Decorators

http://www.learnpython.org/page/Decorators

My Attempted Code

def Type_Check(correct_type):
    def new_function(old_function):
        def another_newfunction(arg):
            if(isintance(arg, correct_type)):
                return old_function(arg)
            else:
                print "Bad Type"

    #put code here

@Type_Check(int)
def Times2(num):
    return num*2

print Times2(2)
Times2('Not A Number')

@Type_Check(str)
def First_Letter(word):
    return word[0]

print First_Letter('Hello World')
First_Letter(['Not', 'A', 'String'])

I am wondering whats wrong, please help

Answer 1

It looks like you forgot to return the newly defined function at the end of the decorator :

def Type_Check(correct_type):
    def new_function(old_function):
        def another_newfunction(arg):
            if(isinstance(arg, correct_type)):
                return old_function(arg)
            else:
                print "Bad Type"
        return another_newfunction
    return new_function

EDIT : there was also some types, fixed by andrean