[Tutor] Decorators and function arguments.

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>> My question is whether this is a valid use for a decorator and whether 
>> this kind of usage is pythonic. If not, are there any better ways to 
>> do this?
> 
> It seems like a bit of a hack to me. I guess you change the way you call 
> run_command to include desc?

Yes. That was the plan. I'd set some keyword arguments that would be 
"reserved" for the decorator rather than the function itself.

> You could add another parameter to profile() which says whether to 
> include parameters (or how many parameters) in the output. Something like

Thanks Kent. That would keep my original functions unaware that they're 
being "decorated". I think it's better.


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~noufal