what is meaning of "@" in pyhon program.

[John Salerno]

"Damon Getsman" <dgetsman at amirehab.net> wrote in message 
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> Okay, maybe I just didn't understand the websites that were given as
> examples as to 'decoration'.  I first came across the unusual '@' when
> I was browsing through some extreme beginner's information on os.x
> method descriptions.  I asked some other people about it and they had
> no idea what it meant.  I don't _THINK_ that the decoration definition
> fits, though, because the examples that I saw it in had it prefixing
> an if conditional & a for loop.

The OP's code sample makes sense for decorators, I think. Can you post an 
actual sample of what it is you saw? Sounds weird.