# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. # Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE in the project root # for license information. from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals """Provides facilities to use objects as modules, enabling __getattr__, __call__ etc on module level. """ import sys import types def module(name): """A decorator for classes that implement modules. Idiomatic usage is with __name__, so that an instance of the class replaces the module in which it is defined:: # foo.py @module(__name__) class Foo(object): def __call__(self): ... # bar.py import foo foo() "Regular" globals, including imports, don't work with class modules. Class or instance attributes must be used consistently for this purpose, and accessed via self inside method bodies:: @module(__name__) class Foo(object): import sys def __call__(self): if self.sys.version_info < (3,): ... """ def decorate(cls): class Module(cls, types.ModuleType): def __init__(self): # Set self up as a proper module, and copy pre-existing globals. types.ModuleType.__init__(self, name) self.__dict__.update(sys.modules[name].__dict__) cls.__init__(self) Module.__name__ = cls.__name__ sys.modules[name] = Module() return decorate