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Examples of creating and using decorators in Python
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brydavis commented Aug 27, 2019

Notice that in the last example, we are NOT using decorators and yet achieve the same result.

In fact, we are using a couple of simple functions and a closure.

Like many features in Python, decorators may not always provide the simplest (or even Pythonic) way to write code.

Use wisely.

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