Pydvice: An attempt at bringing (defadvice ...) from Elisp to Python
AKA Don't you hate it when youre not writing lisp?
In Elisp (defadvice ...) allows one add code 'before', 'after' and 'around' a given function
to modify, augment, or merely hook into behavior, modify the function arguments and returns and more.
Each piece of advice can be independently activated and deactivated. And the sum contribution
of this functionality leads to a much increased ease in code reuse and massaging to a specific
application of more general functionality.
This is my attempt to bring these features to Python by any means necessary.
I advise (get it?) any intrigued party to glance at the Elisp documentation for the advice system:
Elisp advice: http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Advising-Functions.html
Project Goals:
- Provide 'before', 'after', and 'around' advice features to any function.
- Allow any given piece of advice to be activated or deactivated
- Allow consumers of advised functions to remain ignorant of the application of advice
- Provide robust argument mangling (get/set/reorder) in before and around advice
- Provide robust return value handling in around and after advice
- Try not to suck to badly at any of the above
- Have a good time
Obligatory copy-pasta proof/tutorial/crashcource
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# Get the code!
$ git clone git://github.com/sshirokov/pydvice.git
$ cd pydvice
# Run the tests and feel good (or bad) about the result!
$ python test.py
# Built a virtualenv for it and install the library
$ virtualenv ve
$ . ve/bin/activate
$ python setup.py develop
# Throw caution to the wind and give it a shot
$ python
# Import the library
>>> from pydvice import pydvice
# Write a function
>>> def there():
... print "there",
...
>>> there()
there
# Write a peice of 'before advice' to run before the function
# New advice is activated by default
>>> @pydvice.before(there)
... def hello():
... print "Hello",
...
# Note that active advice runs automatically on any function call
>>> there()
Hello there
# Define a peice of 'after advice' but leave it disabled
>>> @pydvice.after(there, activate=False)
... def world(result, args, kwargs):
... print "world!",
...
# Note that bound, but deactivated advice does not affect the function
>>> there()
Hello there
# Activate the after advice directly
>>> world.advice.activate()
<pydvice.After object at 0x1005bfa10>
# Note that all active advice runs in the correct order
>>> there()
Hello there world!
# Deactivate all advice to restore original behavior
>>> pydvice.deactivate_all()
>>> there()
there
# Write a peice of after advice that changes (or adds) the return value
>>> @pydvice.after(there)
... def return_something(ret, args, kwargs):
... return "World greeted"
...
# Note that our old function now returns a value
>>> there()
Hello there world!
'World greeted'
# Seriously, it does
>>> there() == 'World greeted'
Hello there world!
True
# Leave the interpreter excited to try this out for real
>>> exit()