Demystifying Python Decorators: The "Gift Wrapper" Pattern Explained Simply 🎁

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Think of a decorator like a gift wrapper. Just like strings or integers, you can pass a function into another function as an argument, and you can even return a function from a function. Returns the customized wrapper package Wait, what are *args and **kwargs? 🤔 *args catches any standard positional arguments (like a list of numbers: 1, 2, 3). **kwargs catches keyword arguments (like named options: status="active").

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