I wrote about Python decorators five years ago. [See Python Decorators, part 1 and Python Decorators, part 2] At the time, they were new to me, and I hadn’t thought of good use cases for them. Or really, even just good ways to use them.

But that changed during the last five years as I’ve had occasions to actually use decorators in code. They are extremely handy in certain situations. Today’s post takes a more useful look at Python decorators.

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