Have you ever written a decorator? What about a decorator function that takes arguments? In this talk talk we'll discuss the concept of decorators in depth using many examples.

Outline:

• What are decorators
• Why are they used?
• Functions in detail
  • Functions are first class objects
  • Functions as arguments
  • Built-in functions that take functions as arguments
  • Closures and functions as return value
  • varargs and kwargs
• Decorators
• Decorator Examples
• Decorators that take arguments
• Decorator Patterns
• Example: Tiny web framework
• Questions