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Introduction
aspects.py is a lightweight and low-level library for
intercepting function calls. Functions and methods (also in Python
standard library and third party code) can be wrapped so that when
they are called, the wrap is invoked first. Depending on the wrap, the
execution of the original function can be omitted, or the function can
be called arbitrarily many times. Wraps are able to modify the call
arguments and the return values of wrapped functions and handle
exceptions. There can be many wraps on the same function. The wraps
can be enabled, disabled and removed in any order. In the terminology
of aspect-oriented
programming, the library allows applying advices (wraps)
to call
join points of
methods and functions in around fashion.
The aspects library is in production use.
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