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Tag Archives: Aspect-Oriented Programming

Python Decorators, part 2

25 Saturday Apr 2020

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Python

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Aspect-Oriented Programming, computer language, programming language, Python 101, Python code, Python decorator

Last time I began exploring Python decorators, which are a way of having one function “wrap” another function. Because the wrapper has access to both the input parameters and the return value, it can modify these values (unbeknownst to the inner function).

This time I pick up where I left off by exploring decorators modifying return values, decorators that take parameters, and decorators in classes.

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Python Decorators, part 1

24 Friday Apr 2020

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Python

≈ 5 Comments

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Aspect-Oriented Programming, Python 101, Python code, Python decorator

I’ve been playing around with what Python calls decorators. They’re a built-in way of implementing Aspect-Oriented Programming techniques in Python. In fact, they’re quite powerful.

Since they aren’t a common language feature, they can be a little confusing at first, so I thought I’d try my hand at laying out how they work.

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