On Sunday 20 September 2009, John wrote: > Hi, > > I think I understand what decorators are and how they work. Maybe > it's just me but I don't know where I'd use them in my real world > programming. I see how they work with profile or coverage but does > anyone have real world uses.
Frequently used are @classmethod and @staticmethod: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod An other interesting usage of decorators is Phillip J. Eby's 'simplegeneric' library, where decorated functions replace big if... elif... constructions: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplegeneric/0.6 But really decorators are just syntactical sugar. They are an elegant way to write a special case of a function call. Kind regards, Eike. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
