Using decorators with argument in Python

[Lie Ryan]

On 06/29/2011 02:52 AM, Jigar Tanna wrote:

> coming across to certain views from people, it is not a good practice
> to use
> decorators with arguments (i.e. @memoize() ) and instead it is good to
> just
> use @memoize. Can any of you guys explain me advantages and
> disadvantages of
> using each of them

Simplicity is one, using @decor() means you have at least three-level
nested functions, which means the code is likely to be very huge and
perhaps unnecessarily.

However, there is nothing wrong with using decorators with arguments;
except that if you have a simpler alternative, then why use the more
complex ones?