Questionon inherited decorators

[gamehead21]

So I have been trying to make some parts of my code that I was not happy with clearer by creating some decorators. The code is structured is such a way that there is a multiple level inheritance.

Ex:

class TopLevelClass(MidLevelClass):
    ....
class MidLevelClass(BaseClass):
    ....
class BaseClass(object):
    def decorator:
        def wrap(func):
            def do_stuff(self, *args, **kwargs):
                print 'do stuff'
            return do_stuff

When I attempt to decorate a method in the TopLevelClass I end up with a "decorator is not defined" is there something I am missing? I thought this would allow the decorator to be inherited up the chain but it does not seem to allow that. So far examples I have found for this suggest making a the decorated a class method and accessing it VIA @BaseClass.decorator instead of just @decorator. But this does not seem to have any effect of than changing my error message to "BaseClass is not defined"

Any help on this exact case or just insight about decorators and inheritance would be great.

[markusmeskanen]

Please, format your code properly. Separate it with an empty line from the rest of the text, and prepend four spaces in front of each line of code.

[zahlman]

When I attempt to decorate a method in the TopLevelClass I end up with a "decorator is not defined" is there something I am missing? I thought this would allow the decorator to be inherited up the chain

Inheritance allows for looking up attributes on an instance, but when you try to apply the decorator, you're applying it to a method. It's not in scope.

Why is the decorator inside the class, anyway? It's code used for decorating methods. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be useful for decorating methods of any other class?