decorators - more than just syntactic sugar

[Duncan Booth]

"BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/11/07, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch at skynet.be> wrote:
>> How can I find out the predefined decorators?
> 
> There are two in the standard library, @classmethod for declaring
> class methods and @staticmethod for declaring static methods. They are
> listed at the built ins page
> http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/built-in-funcs.html, unpedagogically
> not separated from ordinary functions.
> 
> 

There are at least two other decorators in the standard library:

 functools.wraps
 contextlib.contextmanager