A decorator in Python

Elshad Karimov
Dev Genius
2 min readApr 20, 2024

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A decorator in Python is a design pattern that allows you to add new functionality to an existing object without modifying its structure. Decorators are very powerful and useful tool in Python since they allow the modification of functions or methods at compile time. In Python, decorators are implemented as functions (or classes) that wrap another function or method. This wrapping effect allows the decorator to execute code before or after the…

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