Guide to: Learning Python Decorators

by Matt Harrison

Overview

Decorators are pretty common in Python. While not strictly necessary, they can reduce code size while enabling control of function input, invocation and output. Many explanations of decorators are brief and leave the reader somewhat confused. This book is an attempt to remedy that. It is based off of popular tutorials given at PyCon and Python user groups. Without fail, attendees mention that "decorators now make sense". Not only do they understand them, but they can write them as well.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016106755
Publisher:	Matt Harrison
Publication date:	12/17/2012
Series:	Guide to Learning Python , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Matt Harrison has over 10 years Python experience across the domains of search, build management and testing, business intelligence and storage.

He has presented and taught tutorials at conferences such as SCALE, PyCON and OSCON as well as local user groups. In addition he has been a private tutor teaching programming to teenagers as well as retired folk. The structure of this book is based off of his first hand experience teaching Python to many individuals.

Editorial Reviews

Decorators explained the way they SHOULD be explained …

There is an old saying to the effect that “Every stick has two ends, one by which it may be picked up, and one by which it may not.” I believe that most explanations of decorators fail because they pick up the stick by the wrong end.

What I like about Matt Harrison’s e-book “Guide to: Learning Python Decorators” is that it is structured in the way that I think an introduction to de

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