Making a decorator that accepts arguments PREMIUM

Topic Series: Decorators

Trey Hunner

4 minute read • Works on Python 3.7—3.10

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Let's make a decorator that accepts arguments.

Decorating a function

We have a decorator here called first_arg_is_not_none:

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