Why You Need Decorators in Your Python Code

Metaprogramming is key

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Python is praised for its clarity and syntactic sugariness. In this article, I will teach you to use decorators in Python to make your code readable and clean.

What Are Decorators?

To understand what decorators are, you first need to be familiar with the way Python handles functions. From its point of view, functions are no different than regular objects. They have properties and can be reassigned:

Moreover, you can pass them as arguments to other functions:

Now, to decorators. A decorator is used to modify the behaviour of a function or class. The way this is achieved is by defining a function (decorator) that returns another function. This sounds complicated, but you will understand everything…