On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> �...@set_index
> def get_url(self, index=None):
> return self.storage[index]['Url']
Decorators in python are used (almost as convenience) to wrap
functions/methods for various purposes.
It might be to do some logging before and after the actual function is
called, or setup static methods, etc.
The "@" symbol was chosen for this, and in the above example the
following is happening:
The method get_url(...) is being decorated (as opposed to being
wrapped) with the set_index(...) function.
(Without knowing too much more about the code you're looking at...)
set_index(...) would be doing something
with the get_url(...) method then returning it.
The best example of this is the following from PEP 318 (1):
def onexit(f):
import atexit
atexit.register(f)
return f
@onexit
def func():
...
This has a similar form to the code you're studying and registers func
with atexit hooks so that when
the application terminates, func(...) gets called.
Hope this helps,
cheers
James
1. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/
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