Introduction to Python Decorators | Linux Magazine

I faced a situation recently while building a Web application where a Web service that we made requests from would occasionally hang when we made a request. Because we run our application on Linux, we decided to use signals to add a timeout to our request. Because we use Python, we implemented the timeout as a decorator, since we knew we would likely find other places where we needed to add timeouts. A simplified version of this code makes an excellent introduction to how decorators work.

Introduction to Python Decorators | Linux Magazine

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