Decorators

Links

• functools.wraps

• http://jackdied.blogspot.com

Sample

from functools import wraps
def my_decorator(f):
    @wraps(f)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
        print 'Calling decorated function'
        return f(*args, **kwds)
    return wrapper

@my_decorator
def example():
    """Docstring"""
    print 'Called example function'

>>> example()
Calling decorated function
Called example function
>>> example.__name__
'example'
>>> example.__doc__
'Docstring'

Without the use of this decorator factory, the name of the example function would have been wrapper, and the docstring of the original example() would have been lost.