On Sunday 20 September 2009 03:43:32 pm Eike Welk wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009, John wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think I understand what decorators are and how they work. Maybe > > it's just me but I don't know where I'd use them in my real world > > programming. I see how they work with profile or coverage but does > > anyone have real world uses. > > Frequently used are @classmethod and @staticmethod: > http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod > > An other interesting usage of decorators is Phillip J. > Eby's 'simplegeneric' library, where decorated functions replace big > if... elif... constructions: > http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplegeneric/0.6 > > But really decorators are just syntactical sugar. They are an elegant > way to write a special case of a function call. > > Kind regards, > Eike.
Thanks to all that responded on list and off. You guys have provided much to read. Thanks Johnf _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
