[Tutor] Decorators

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Mon Apr 10 21:44:21 CEST 2006


Greg Lindstrom wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> For some reason I have decided to learn about decorators; I heard them 
> talked up at  Pycon the past two years and want to know what all the 
> fuss is about.  I might even use them in my code :-)
> 
> My problem, and this is after reading PEP 318 and other items found when 
> I "Googled" for decorators, is that I can't figure out the practical use 
> for them.  This surely means that I do not understand the concept 
> because Python does not waste my time or energy.  Can any of you gurus 
> either explain what all the excitement is about or point me to examples 
> of how/why I would want to use decorators?

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary



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