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I have an object hierarchy in which almost all of the methods are class methods. It looks like the following: class ParentObject(object): def __init__(self): pass @classmethod def smile_warmly(cls, the_method): def wrapper(kls, *args, **kwargs): print "-smile_warmly - "+kls.__name__ the_method(*args, **kwargs) return wrapper @classmethod def greetings(cls): print "greetings" class SonObject(ParentObject): @classmethod def hello_son(cls): print "hello son" @classmethod def goodbye(cls): print "goodbye son" class DaughterObject(ParentObject): @classmethod def hello_daughter(cls): print "hello daughter" @classmethod def goodbye(cls): print "goodbye daughter" if __name__ == '__main__': son = SonObject() son.greetings() son.hello_son() son.goodbye() daughter = DaughterObject() daughter.greetings() daughter.hello_daughter() daughter.goodbye() The code as given outputs the following: greetings hello son goodbye son greetings hello daughter goodbye daughter I would like the code to output the following: -smile_warmly - SonObject greetings -smile_warmly - SonObject hello son -smile_warmly - SonObject goodbye son -smile_warmly - DaughterObject greetings -smile_warmly - DaughterObject hello daughter -smile_warmly - DaughterObject goodbye daughter But I don't want to add the line @smile_warmly before each method (and when I try to do that in the code above, I get error message TypeError: 'classmethod' object is not callable ). Rather, I would like the decoration of each method to take place programmatically in the __init__() method. Is it possible to programmatically decorate methods in Python? EDIT : Found something that seems

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