# implements_to_string class decorator that helps implementing classes with __unicode__ or __str__ methods
# Based on: Steven's suggestions

from __future__ import print_function
import sys

def decorate(cls):
    print("decorate called")
    if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
        cls.__dict__["__str__"].__name__ = '__bytes__'
        cls.__dict__["__unicode__"].__name__ = '__str__'
        cls.__bytes__ = cls.__dict__["__str__"]
        cls.__str__ = cls.__dict__["__unicode__"]
    return cls

@decorate
class Test(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.__dict__["encoding"] = self.encoding

    def __str__(self):
        return "str called".encode(self.encoding)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return "unicode called"

    @property
    def encoding(self):
        """In reality this method extracts the encoding from a file"""
        return "utf-8" # rot13 no longer exists in Python3

if __name__ == "__main__":
    t = Test()
    if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
        print(unicode(t))
    print(str(t))