decorators

[John Henry]

I must be very thick. I keep reading about what decorators are and I
still don't have a good feel about it. See, for example:

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=564

What exactly do I use decorators for?

 

[sjdevnull]

I must be very thick. I keep reading about what decorators are and I
still don't have a good feel about it. See, for example:

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=564

What exactly do I use decorators for?

Metafunctions. Saying

@mydecorator
def foo(...):
...

is just an alternative way of writing:
def foo(...):
...
foo = mydecorator(foo)