example of how python decorators, *args and **kwargs work

decorators.py

# An example of how to make decorators and also how *args and **kwargs work.

from functools import partial

def wrapping(func):
    def wrapper(func, *args, **kwargs):
        # print "wrapper"
        # print func
        # print args
        # printwrappergs
        kwargs['custom'] = 1
        func(*args, **kwargs)

    return partial(wrapper, func)

@wrapping
def dummy(*args, **kwargs):
    print "im dumb"
    print args
    print kwargs

dummy(1,2,3,a=1,b=2,c=3)

# if you dont use @wrapping, you can call it like this:
# wrapping(dummy)(1,2,3,a=1,b=2,c=3)