I was looking at some lazy loading property decorators in Python and happened across this example (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/363602-lazy-property-evaluation/):
class Lazy(object):
def __init__(self, calculate_function):
self._calculate = calculate_function
def __get__(self, obj, _=None):
if obj is None:
return self
value = self._calculate(obj)
setattr(obj, self._calculate.func_name, value)
return value
# Sample use:
class SomeClass(object):
@Lazy
def someprop(self):
print 'Actually calculating value'
return 13
o = SomeClass()
o.someprop
o.someprop
My question is, how does this work? My understanding of decorators is that they must be callable (so either a function or a call that implements __call__
), but Lazy
here clearly is not and if I try Lazy(someFunc)()
it raises an exception as expected. What am I missing?