Can a decorator of an instance method access the class?

I have something roughly like the following. Basically I need to access the class of an instance method from a decorator used upon the instance method in its definition.

def decorator(view):
    # do something that requires view"s class
    print view.im_class
    return view

class ModelA(object):
    @decorator
    def a_method(self):
        # do some stuff
        pass

The code as-is gives:

AttributeError: "function" object has no attribute "im_class"

I found similar question/answers - Python decorator makes function forget that it belongs to a class and Get class in Python decorator - but these rely upon a workaround that grabs the instance at run-time by snatching the first parameter. In my case, I will be calling the method based upon the information gleaned from its class, so I can"t wait for a call to come in.

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