Decorators, Identity functions and execution...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Carl Banks wrote:

> Having said that, this decorator will not affect calling overhead at
> all.  The decorator is applied when the module is loaded, not when the
> decorated function is called.

to be precise, the decorator is applied when the "def" statement is exe-
cuted (that is, when the decorated function object is created).

this may be load time, or, for nested functions, some other time.

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