Built-in Decorators
Explore Python's built-in decorators to understand how classmethod and staticmethod allow calling functions through classes or instances. Discover how the property decorator turns class methods into attributes, enabling read-only access or controlled setting. This lesson helps you learn to use these decorators to write cleaner, more flexible class code.
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Python comes with several built-in decorators. The big three are:
- @classmethod
- @staticmethod
- @property
There are also decorators in various parts of Python’s standard library. One example would be functools.wraps. We will be limiting our scope to the three above though.
@classmethod and @staticmethod
I have never actually used these myself, so I did a fair bit of research. The <*@classmethod>* decorator can be called with with an instance of a class or directly by the class itself as its first argument. According to the Python documentation: It can be ...