Python decorators support aspect-oriented programming. It is used to add or modify the code in functions or classes. Using decorators will provide security, tracing, looking etc Let see an example:
@fundecorator def myfunc(): print "This is my function"
The above example has a function myfunc() with a decorator @fundecorator. The symbol @ tell that the type of the name is a decorator. Some points regarding decorators: -- Decorators can be function or class -- The class that is used as a decorator must implement __call__ -- In a class, decorator arguments are optional whereas a function decorator must have arguments. Decorators are of two types: 1. Class decorators: - In this, we use class as a decorator to decorate functions/classes. For example:
>>> class mydecorator(object): ... def __init__(self, f): ... self.f = f ... def __call__(self): ... print "Start of", self.f.__name__ ... self.f() ... print "End of", self.f.__name__ ... >>> @mydecorator ... def func1(): ... print "This is function 1" ... >>> @mydecorator ... def func2(): ... print "This is function 2" ...
The output is:
>>> func1() Start of func1 This is function 1 End of func1 >>> func2() Start of func2 This is function 2 End of func2
Class decorators without arguments: The above example is considered under this category. There are no decorator arguments in __init__. So the control is passed to the constructor f() which will take the function to be decorated as input. __call__ will be invoked only after the decorated function is called. Class decorators with arguments: These are the class decorators which take input arguments. For example:
#decorators.py class mydecorator(object): def __init__(self, arg1, arg2, arg3): self.arg1 = arg1 self.arg2 = arg2 self.arg3 = arg3 def __call__(self, f): def sum_of_args(*args): print("Decorator arguments:", self.arg1, self.arg2, self.arg3) f(*args) print("Sum of decorator arguments: ", (self.arg1+self.arg2+self.arg3)) return sum_of_args @mydecorator(5, 10, 15) def sayHello(a1, a2, a3, a4): print('sayhello() arguments:', a1, a2, a3, a4) print("Calling sayHello()") sayHello("say", "hi", "hello", "world")
The output for the above program will be:
~$ python decorators.py Calling sayHello() ('Decorator arguments:', 5, 10, 15) ('sayhello() arguments:', 'say', 'hi', 'hello', 'world') ('Sum of decorator arguments: ', 30)
2. Function decorators:- In this we use function as decorator to decorate functions/classes. For example:
>>> def mydecorator(f): ... def myfun(): ... print "Start of", f.__name__ ... f() ... print "End of", f.__name__ ... myfun.__name__ = f.__name__ ... return myfun ... >>> @mydecorator ... def func1(): ... print "This is function 1" ... >>> @mydecorator ... def func2(): ... print "This is function 2" ...
The output will be same as the output for Type 1.
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