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Title: Guide To: Learning Python Decorators

Subtitle: Python Guides

Author: Matt Harrison

Narrator: John Edmondson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-15

Publisher: Matt Harrison

Genres: Self Development, How-To

Publisher's Summary:

Decorators are pretty common in modern Python. While not strictly necessary, they can reduce code size while enabling control of function input, invocation, and output. They also enable separation of responsibility and DRY. Many explanations of decorators are brief and leave the listener somewhat confused. This book is an attempt to remedy that. It is based on popular tutorials given at PyCon and in Python user groups.

Members Reviews:

Decorators explained the way they SHOULD be explained

Recently, in a post titled "Python decorators" on the PythonConquersTheUniverse blog, I described what I think is wrong about most introductions to decorators, and I sketched out what I think is a better way to structure an introduction to decorators. In that post I wrote this:

There is an old saying to the effect that "Every stick has two ends, one by which it may be picked up, and one by which it may not." I believe that most explanations of decorators fail because they pick up the stick by the wrong end.

What I like about Matt Harrison's e-book "Guide to: Learning Python Decorators" is that it is structured in the way that I think an introduction to decorators should be structured. It picks up the stick by the proper end.

The first two-thirds of the Guide hardly talk about decorators at all. Instead, Matt begins with a thorough discussion of how Python functions work. By the time the discussion gets to decorators, we have been given a strong understanding of the internal mechanics of functions. And since most decorators are functions, at that point it is easy for Matt to explain the internal mechanics of decorators.

Which is just as it should be.

So I am happy to rate "Guide to: Learning Python Decorators" as HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

This was a quite good eBook

This was a quite good eBook. I bought this eBook with pretty low expectations. I needed to learn a bit more about Python decorators and this eBook looked like it might help. It did. The eBook is actually rather substantial (for the price) and was quite informative. Well worth the price in dollars and the time required to read it. The eBook has a wealth of information about Python decorations and other topics you need to understand to make decorations comprehensible.

Nice introduction, no advanced material

A clear and concise book. The author clearly explains the issue, bottom up: python functions, arguments, parameters, closures and finally decorators. The english is clear, so it's easy to understand the concept.

However, for a price of a full book, you could expect some advanced material: more about multiple decorators (which are only reminded in one page at the end), exceptions, detailed examples of common usage, class decorators etc.

Discover the power Python Decorators and more ...

Overall the book served it's intended purpose to teach the reader about Python Decorators. Some knowledge of Python is assumed and I would recommend reading an introductory text before attempting to take on this topic. If you're new to Python you won't appreciate the true value and power of creating closures and decorators in Python.

I also recommend reading this book with Python readily available.