Decorator and Metaclasses Documentation

[Steve Holden]

sysfault wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:01:13 -0700, Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote:
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>>Amusingly, I was just perusing these links earlier today. Go go Firefox
>>history search!
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>>http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
>>http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm
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> Are descriptors the same thing as decorators?

No. In brief:

Decorators are a mechanism whereby a function or method can be 
transparently wrapped by another function.

Descriptors are used to hook programmed functionality into the basic 
access mechanisms of object attributes.

regards
  Steve
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