Use of functools.partial instead of using a closure

gistfile1.py

from functools import partial


def tracecalls(cls):

    def my__getattribute__(self, name):
        attr = super(cls, self).__getattribute__(name)
        return attr if not callable(attr) else partial(whencalled, attr)

    cls.__getattribute__ = my__getattribute__
    return cls


def whencalled(func, *args, **kw):
    rc = func(*args, **kw)
    logtrace(func, args, kw, rc)
    return rc