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omaranto on Aug 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding Python Decorators

It only feels wrong because you think of them as decorators without arguments and decorators with arguments: they really are decorators stored in variables and decorators computed by function calls. :)

rbonvall on Aug 8, 2011 [–]

That's exactly how I see it. One could have also, for example, lists of decorators,

    @a[1]
    def f(x):
        ...

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