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From: "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com>
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>=A0So  decorators will never take instance variables as arguments (nor sho=
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Right, I never thought of it that way, my only use of them has been trivial=
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> Bear in mind, a decorator should take a callable as an argument (and any =
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> you want to assign  it), and return another callable.=0A=
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Got it, and thanks for the detail as well!=0A=
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