Most Used Python Decorators: when to use and when not to

Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Level Up Coding
Published in
11 min readMar 23, 2023

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Decorators are a powerful feature of Python that allows you to modify or enhance the behavior of a function, method, or class without changing its source code.

Most Common Decorators

  1. @staticmethod: This decorator is used to define a static method in a class. It does not require an instance of the class to be called and can be accessed using the class name.
  2. @classmethod: This decorator is used to define a class method in a class. It takes the class itself as the first…

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