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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:29:42 -0600
Subject: Re: Using decorators with argument in Python
To: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> How about just having one bit of code that works either way?

How would you adapt that code if you wanted to be able to decorate a
function that takes arguments?

This also won't work if the argument to the decorator is itself a
callable, such as in the OP's example.