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Are decorators more than syntactic sugar for functions that take functions?

• irrelative 18y ago
  Delicious, delicious syntactic sugar :)
• llimllib 18y ago
  # No. This code: @decorate def foo(self): frobnicate() #is exactly equivalent to: def foo(self): frobnicate() foo = decorate(foo) http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/
  • gaius 18y ago
    Yeah, but that's really clunky when you want to do @this @that @the_other def foo(self): frobnicate() This is what Java people call "aspect oriented programming" and get all excited about, but to us it's no big deal :-)
• schtog 18y ago
  Useful example, adding memoization without rewriting the actual function, just add @decoratorname above the function. class memoize: def __init__(self, function): self.function = function self.memoized = {} def __call__(self, *args): try: return self.memoized[args] except KeyError: self.memoized[args] = self.function(*args) return self.memoized[args] @memoize def fib(n)
  • anamax 18y ago
    2.5 supported function decorators, which this is. (The decorator has always been a callable, so the above class has always been legal.) 2.6 supports decorators for other things, including classes.