Access self from decorator
Since you're decorating a method, and self is a method argument, your decorator has access to self at runtime. Obviously not at parsetime, because there are no objects yet, just a class.
So you change your decorator to:
def decorator(func): def _decorator(self, *args, **kwargs): # access a from TestSample print 'self is %s' % self return func(self, *args, **kwargs) return _decorator