function decorator-like function

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 12:26:39 EDT 2010


On Mar 28, 9:17 am, Michele Simionato <michele.simion... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Another option is to use my own decorator module (http://
> pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator):
>
> from decorator import decorator
>
> @decorator
> def d(func, *args):
>     print 3
>     return func(*args)
>
> @d
> def f(a, b):
>     print a + b
>
> f(5, 7)

That looks cool (and I'm glad you mentioned it), but it appeared to me
the OP was trying to manually construct the equivalent of a decorator
without the "@" syntax, in order to gain an understanding of how
decorators work, and for this particular purpose, piling additional
magic on top of decorators is probably not helpful :-)

Regards,
Pat



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