Goal: Make it possible to decorate class methods. When a class method gets decorated, it gets stored in a dictionary so that other class methods can reference it by a string name.

Motivation: I want to implement the equivalent of ASP.Net's WebMethods. I am building this on top of google app engine, but that does not affect the point of difficulty that I am having.

How it Would look if it worked:

class UsefulClass(WebmethodBaseClass):

    def someMethod(self, blah):
        print(blah)

    @webmethod
    def webby(self, blah):
        print(blah)

# the implementation of this class could be completely different, it does not matter
# the only important thing is having access to the web methods defined in sub classes
class WebmethodBaseClass():
    def post(self, methodName):
        webmethods[methodName]("kapow")

    ...

a = UsefulClass()
a.post("someMethod") # should error
a.post("webby")  # prints "kapow"

There could be other ways to go about this. I am very open to suggestions