GrahamDumpleton/wrapt

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2295 stars · 252 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

wrapt is a Python module providing transparent object proxies for building function wrappers, decorators, and monkey patching utilities. It emphasizes correctness and introspection preservation, with a C extension for performance and a pure Python fallback.

Use cases

• write decorators that preserve function signatures and metadata
• create universal decorators working on functions, methods, and classes
• safely monkey patch third-party code at runtime
• build transparent object proxies for wrapping arbitrary objects
• instrument libraries like APM tracers with minimal overhead

When to choose

• you need decorators more correct and introspectable than functools.wraps allows
• you are building instrumentation, tracing, or patching libraries
• you need decorators that work uniformly across functions, methods, classmethods, and classes

When to avoid

• you only need simple decorators and functools.wraps suffices
• you want a zero-dependency pure-Python solution without C extension considerations

Facets

library · maturity stable

middleware developer-tools concurrency developer-tools programming-languages python cross-platform decorators monkey-patching object-proxy function-wrappers introspection

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