nltk.decorators module

Decorator module by Michele Simionato <michelesimionato@libero.it> Copyright Michele Simionato, distributed under the terms of the BSD License (see below). http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/documentation.html

Included in NLTK for its support of a nice memoization decorator.

nltk.decorators.decorator(caller)

General purpose decorator factory: takes a caller function as input and returns a decorator with the same attributes. A caller function is any function like this:

def caller(func, *args, **kw):
    # do something
    return func(*args, **kw)

Here is an example of usage:

>>> @decorator
... def chatty(f, *args, **kw):
...     print("Calling %r" % f.__name__)
...     return f(*args, **kw)

>>> chatty.__name__
'chatty'

>>> @chatty
... def f(): pass
...
>>> f()
Calling 'f'

decorator can also take in input a class with a .caller method; in this case it converts the class into a factory of callable decorator objects. See the documentation for an example.

nltk.decorators.getinfo(func)

Returns an info dictionary containing: - name (the name of the function : str) - argnames (the names of the arguments : list) - defaults (the values of the default arguments : tuple) - signature (the signature : str) - fullsignature (the full signature : Signature) - doc (the docstring : str) - module (the module name : str) - dict (the function __dict__ : str)

>>> def f(self, x=1, y=2, *args, **kw): pass

>>> info = getinfo(f)

>>> info["name"]
'f'
>>> info["argnames"]
['self', 'x', 'y', 'args', 'kw']

>>> info["defaults"]
(1, 2)

>>> info["signature"]
'self, x, y, *args, **kw'

>>> info["fullsignature"]
<Signature (self, x=1, y=2, *args, **kw)>

nltk.decorators.new_wrapper(wrapper, model)

An improvement over functools.update_wrapper. The wrapper is a generic callable object. It works by generating a copy of the wrapper with the right signature and by updating the copy, not the original. Moreovoer, ‘model’ can be a dictionary with keys ‘name’, ‘doc’, ‘module’, ‘dict’, ‘defaults’.