function decorators

Seebs usenet-nospam at seebs.net
Tue Sep 28 18:12:47 EDT 2010


On 2010-09-28, Nick Donohue <ndonohue at gmail.com> wrote:
> why would I use these? wouldn't it be more flexible to not write the
> decorator before the function definition, so I could choose to wrap it
> or not?

The utility is that it lets you modify all calls to a function at once,
without changing all the instances in a ton of source code.

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