Python - what are all the built-in decorators? [closed]
I don't think so. Decorators don't differ from ordinary functions, you only call them in a fancier way.
For finding all of them try searching Built-in functions list, because as you can see in Python glossary the decorator syntax is just a syntactic sugar, as the following two definitions create equal functions (copied this example from glossary):
def f(...):
...
f = staticmethod(f)
@staticmethod
def f(...):
So any built-in function that returns another function can be used as a decorator. Question is - does it make sense to use it that way? :-)
functools module contains some functions that can be used as decorators, but they aren't built-ins you asked for.
They're not built-in, but this library of example decorators is very good.
As Abgan says, the built-in function list is probably the best place to look. Although, since decorators can also be implemented as classes, it's not guaranteed to be comprehensive.
Decorators aren't even required to return a function. I've used @atexit.register
before.