Making a well-behaved decorator PREMIUM

Topic Series: Decorators

Trey Hunner

4 minute read • Works on Python 3.7—3.10

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What makes a decorator well-behaved?

Decorated function lose their documentation

We have a function here called is_prime:

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Making a decorator that accepts arguments

If you want to make a decorator that's customizable, make a decorator that accepts arguments. That's really just a function that accepts arguments and returns a decorator that uses those arguments.