Jan. 6, 2024, 12:43 a.m. | AnneMiriam

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Just like in JS, functions are first-class methods, meaning that they can be passed as an argument inside another function. And that's what Decorators do, they are essentially a function that you wrap around another function using the @ syntax.


In Python there are a number of built in functions that we see as decorators. Some like property can be used as a decorator or as a regular function.


Some common decorators include:



  • @classmethod

  • @property

  • @wraps

  • @abstractmethod

  • @staticmethod


So …

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