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Subject: Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions
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Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> writes:

> You should use functools.wraps instead of clobbering the decorated
> function's name and docstring:
>
>         @functools.wraps(decorator)
>         def decorate(*args, **kwargs):
>             ...

Thanks. Can you write the full implementation with that, so I can be
sure of where you expect that to go?

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