Performance impact of using decorators

[Steve Holden]

vinjvinj wrote:
> I'm building an application with cherrypy and have started using
> decorators quite extensively. A lot of my exposed functions look like:
> 
> @expose
> @startTransactrionAndBuildPage
> @partOfTabUi(tabId)
> @convert(arg1=int, arg2=str)
> def do_main_page(self, arg1, arg2):
>    some code
> 
> 
> I've become really fond of decorators and use them quite a lot. I've
> also ready that function calls are expensive in python. In the above
> example, does the interpreter call 5 different functions?
> 

Without reading your code I can't be sure, but this is sure looking like 
the classic "to a man with only a hammer all problems look like a nail" 
solution. I'm not going to tell you that decorators aren't the answer to 
all programming problems, because you already know that in your heart :-)

regards
  Steve
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