Python functools.wraps equivalent for classes

Everyone seems to have missed the obvious solution. Using functools.update_wrapper:

>>> import functools
>>> class memoized(object):
    """Decorator that caches a function's return value each time it is called.
    If called later with the same arguments, the cached value is returned, and
    not re-evaluated.
    """
    def __init__(self, func):
        self.func = func
        self.cache = {}
        functools.update_wrapper(self, func)  ## TA-DA! ##
    def __call__(self, *args):
        pass  # Not needed for this demo.

>>> @memoized
def fibonacci(n):
    """fibonacci docstring"""
    pass  # Not needed for this demo.

>>> fibonacci
<__main__.memoized object at 0x0156DE30>
>>> fibonacci.__name__
'fibonacci'
>>> fibonacci.__doc__
'fibonacci docstring'

I'm not aware of such things in stdlib, but we can create our own if we need to.

Something like this can work :

from functools import WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS


def class_wraps(cls):
    """Update a wrapper class `cls` to look like the wrapped."""

    class Wrapper(cls):
        """New wrapper that will extend the wrapper `cls` to make it look like `wrapped`.

        wrapped: Original function or class that is beign decorated.
        assigned: A list of attribute to assign to the the wrapper, by default they are:
             ['__doc__', '__name__', '__module__', '__annotations__'].

        """

        def __init__(self, wrapped, assigned=WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS):
            self.__wrapped = wrapped
            for attr in assigned:
                setattr(self, attr, getattr(wrapped, attr))

            super().__init__(wrapped)

        def __repr__(self):
            return repr(self.__wrapped)

    return Wrapper

Usage:

@class_wraps
class memoized:
    """Decorator that caches a function's return value each time it is called.
    If called later with the same arguments, the cached value is returned, and
    not re-evaluated.
    """

    def __init__(self, func):
        super().__init__()
        self.func = func
        self.cache = {}

    def __call__(self, *args):
        try:
            return self.cache[args]
        except KeyError:
            value = self.func(*args)
            self.cache[args] = value
            return value
        except TypeError:
            # uncacheable -- for instance, passing a list as an argument.
            # Better to not cache than to blow up entirely.
            return self.func(*args)

    def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
        return functools.partial(self.__call__, obj)


@memoized
def fibonacci(n):
    """fibonacci docstring"""
    if n in (0, 1):
       return n
    return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)


print(fibonacci)
print("__doc__: ", fibonacci.__doc__)
print("__name__: ", fibonacci.__name__)

Output:

<function fibonacci at 0x14627c0>
__doc__:  fibonacci docstring
__name__:  fibonacci

EDIT:

And if you are wondering why this wasn't included in the stdlib is because you can wrap your class decorator in a function decorator and use functools.wraps like this:

def wrapper(f):

    memoize = memoized(f)

    @functools.wraps(f)
    def helper(*args, **kws):
        return memoize(*args, **kws)

    return helper


@wrapper
def fibonacci(n):
    """fibonacci docstring"""
    if n <= 1:
       return n
    return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)

Turns out there's a straightforward solution using functools.wraps itself:

import functools

def dec(cls):
    @functools.wraps(cls, updated=())
    class D(cls):
        decorated = 1
    return D


@dec
class C:
    """doc"""

print(f'{C.__name__=} {C.__doc__=} {C.__wrapped__=}')

$ python3 t.py 
C.__name__='C' C.__doc__='doc' C.__wrapped__=<class '__main__.C'>

Note that updated=() is needed to prevent an attempt to update the class's __dict__ (this output is without updated=()):

$ python t.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "t.py", line 26, in <module>
    class C:
  File "t.py", line 20, in dec
    class D(cls):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/functools.py", line 57, in update_wrapper
    getattr(wrapper, attr).update(getattr(wrapped, attr, {}))
AttributeError: 'mappingproxy' object has no attribute 'update'