Rather than decorators, how about sections?

[John Roth]

"Steve" <dippyd at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:411C12D4.7010400 at yahoo.com...
>
> Is there a simple primer for static and class methods
> and decorators and such that you can recommend?

It's cleverly hidden on the Python documentation
page, under "additional documentation."

http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle.html

At some point all of this should be integrated into
the standard documentation, but that task has been
hanging fire since 2.2.

John Roth