Python: shortcut for writing decorators which accept arguments?

Question

Does the Python standard library have a shortcut for writing decorators which accept arguments?

For example, if I want to write a decorator like with_timeout(timeout):

@with_timeout(10.0)
def cook_eggs(eggs):
    while not eggs.are_done():
        eggs.cook()

I have to write something like:

def with_timeout(timeout):
    _func = [None]
    def with_timeout_helper(*args, **kwargs):
        with Timeout(timeout):
            return _func[0](*args, **kwargs)
    def with_timeout_return(f):
        return functools.wraps(f)(with_timeout_helper)
    return with_timeout_return

But that's awfully verbose. Is there a shortcut which makes decorators which accept arguments easier to write?

Note: I realize that it's also possible to use three nested functions to implement decorators with arguments… But that feels just a bit suboptimal too.

For example, possibly something like a @decorator_with_arguments function:

@decorator_with_arguments
def timeout(f, timeout):
    @functools.wraps(f)
    def timeout_helper(*args, **kwargs):
        with Timeout(timeout):
            return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return timeout_helper

Answer 1

I tend to write my decorators as classes to be honest

class TestWithArgs(object):
    def __init__(self, *deco_args, **deco_kwargs):
        self.deco_args = deco_args
        self.deco_kwargs = deco_kwargs
    def __call__(self, func):
        def _wrap(self, *args, **kwargs):
            print "Blah blah blah"
            return func(*args, **kwargs)
        return _wrap

Its nothing if not slightly clearer

Answer 2

I know you said it feels suboptimal but I still feel that using three nested models is the cleanest solution. The inner two functions are just the 'normal' way of defining a decorator for a function that takes arguments (see example in python's docs for @wraps). The outer one is really just a function that takes and argument and returns a decorator.

def with_timeout(timeout):
    def decorator(f):
        @wraps(f)
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            with Timeout(timeout):
                return f(*args, **kwargs)
        return wrapper
    return decorator