Python - Count number of times function passes through decorator

Question

I have a decorator that I wanna make increase a counter anytime a function is routed through the decorator. So far this is my code

from functools import wraps
def count_check(function):
    """Returns number of times any function with this decorator is called
    """
    count = []
    @wraps(function)
    def increase_count(*args, **kwargs):
        count.append(1)
        return function(*args, **kwargs), len(count)

    return increase_count

It works fine, until another function passes through the decorator and count resets to 0 for that function. How can I aggregate the total number of times?

Answer 1

This should do it:

from functools import wraps
def count_check(function, count=[0]):
    """Returns number of times any function with this decorator is called
    """
    @wraps(function)
    def increase_count(*args, **kwargs):
        count[0] += 1
        return function(*args, **kwargs), count[0]

    return increase_count

You could also get fancy and use a dictionary counting the functions individually as well as separately:

from functools import wraps
def count_check(function, count={}):
    """Returns number of times any function with this decorator is called
    """
    count[function] = 0
    @wraps(function)
    def increase_count(*args, **kwargs):
        count[function] += 1
        return function(*args, **kwargs), count[function], sum(count.values())

    return increase_count

Demo:

@count_check
def foo():
    return 42

print(foo(), foo(), foo())

@count_check
def bar():
    return 23

print(bar(), bar(), bar())
print(foo(), foo(), foo())

Prints:

(42, 1, 1) (42, 2, 2) (42, 3, 3)
(23, 1, 4) (23, 2, 5) (23, 3, 6)
(42, 4, 7) (42, 5, 8) (42, 6, 9)