OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
A decorator basically modifies a function/method, so that ALL subsequent calls to it will behave differently.
Furthermore, usually a decorator is used when for some reason you *can't* achieve the same effect with code inside the function itself. For example, the classmethod() and staticmethod() decorators return descriptors that have different magical effects from a standard function object when looked up in a class or instance. Since that magic happens *before* the function is called, you can't do the same thing using an ordinary function. In this case, an ordinary function is quite sufficient, and there is no need to involve a decorator. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
