"Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If none of the examples make you say > "wow, I could use this" and if you don't find yourself writing > repetitive setup/teardown/housekeeping code, you can probably live quite > comfortably without using decorators. >
Amen! Don't force yourself to learn decorators if you don't need them at the moment. Wait until you start repeating the same code (lock/unlock, dbready/dbcommit, logstart/logend, etc.) around multiple functions, then go back and try applying a decorator to simplify the job. Having a real use for them will make it much easier to "get". I will say, though, that I found the memoizing decorator to be especially intriguing and eye-opening, and didn't realize I needed it until I saw it laid out in front of me. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
