Python Decorators Explained with Examples: Logging, Timing, Retry, Access Control and Caching
Have you ever seen a line like @app.route("/") in Flask or @login_required in Django and wondered what that little @ symbol actually does? That is a decorator, one of Python's most powerful features. A decorator lets you add extra behavior to a function, such as logging, timing, retrying or permission checks, without changing the function's own code.