What is the difference between “Python decorators” and the “decorator pattern”?
When should I use Python decorators, and when should I use the decorator pattern?
I'm looking for examples of Python decorators and the decorator pattern accomplishing same?
@AcceptedAnswer
I know that Jakob Bowyer's answer is valid. Yet is's Strikar's answer that made me understand why.
After Srikar's answer and studying given resources I've written this example, so I can visualize and understand Python decorators and Decorator Pattern.
I must disagree with Strikar's "Python decorators are not an implementation of the decorator pattern". After what I've learned I'm strongly convinced that Python decorators are implementation of Decorator Pattern. Just not in the classic way.
Also, I need to add that despite the fact that Strikar said "Python decorators add functionality to functions and methods at definition time" you can easily use Pytohon decorators at run time.
Yet, I still mark Stiker's answer as accepted, because it helped me understand Implementation of Decorator Pattern in Python.
"""
Testing Python decorators against Decorator Pattern
"""
def function(string):
return string
def decorator(wrapped):
def wrap(string):
# assume that this is something useful
return wrapped(string.upper())
return wrap
def method_decorator(wrapped):
def wrap(instance, string):
# assume that this is something useful
return wrapped(instance, string.upper())
return wrap
@decorator
def decorated_function(string):
print('! '.join(string.split(' ')))
class Class(object):
def __init__(self):
pass
def something_useful(self, string):
return string
class Decorator(object):
def __init__(self, wrapped):
self.wrapped = wrapped
def something_useful(self, string):
string = '! '.join(string.split(' '))
return self.wrapped().something_useful(string)
@method_decorator
def decorated_and_useful(self,string):
return self.something_useful(string)
if __name__ == '__main__':
string = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.'
print(function(string)) # plain functioon
print(decorator(function)(string)) # Python decorator at run time
print(decorated_function(string)) # Python decorator at definition time
a = Class()
print(a.something_useful(string)) # plain method
b = Decorator(Class)
print(b.something_useful(string)) # Decorator Pattern
print(b.decorated_and_useful(string)) # Python decorator decorated Decorator Pattern
解决方案
Decorator Pattern - In object-oriented programming, the decorator pattern is a design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically. The decorator pattern can be used to extend (decorate) the functionality of a certain object at run-time, independently of other instances of the same class, provided some groundwork is done at design time.
Decorators in Python - Despite the name, Python decorators are not an implementation of the decorator pattern. The decorator pattern is a design pattern used in statically typed object-oriented programming languages to allow functionality to be added to objects at run time; Python decorators add functionality to functions and methods at definition time, and thus are a higher-level construct than decorator-pattern classes. The decorator pattern itself is trivially implementable in Python, because the language is duck typed, and so is not usually considered as such. So in Python a decorator is any callable Python object that is used to modify a function, method or class definition.
I hope i made the difference clear. Just in case you did not completely understand, please go through these links. You will come out more than clear at the end of it -