[Tutor] real world decorators

[John]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 03:43:32 pm Eike Welk wrote:
> On Sunday 20 September 2009, John wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I understand what decorators are and how they work.  Maybe
> > it's just me but I don't know where I'd use them in my real world
> > programming.  I see how they work with profile or coverage but does
> > anyone have real world uses.
>
> Frequently used are @classmethod and @staticmethod:
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod
>
> An other interesting usage of decorators is Phillip J.
> Eby's 'simplegeneric' library, where decorated functions replace big
> if... elif... constructions:
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplegeneric/0.6
>
> But really decorators are just syntactical sugar. They are an elegant
> way to write a special case of a function call.
>
> Kind regards,
> Eike.

Thanks to all that responded on list and off.  You guys have provided much to 
read.  

Thanks

Johnf