Understanding Python Decorators
Decorators are functions that replaces an existing function with another function with the original function as a parameter.
A decorator function would have the following structure:
def decorator_name(func):
def func_wrapper(*args)
return "any content" + str(*args)
return func_wrapper
Sometimes, you might see functions that are defined like:
@some_function
def do_stuff(*args):
return str(*args)
@some_function in this case is a decorator.
What the above actually translate to in pseudo-code is:
Whenever do_stuff() is called, return the output of some_function() which takes in the output of do_stuff().
An example of how it can be used would be something like:
If there’s one thing you ultimately need to understand about decorator functions, it is that it always have to return a function.
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