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Decorators

Decorators are intuitive and extremely useful. To demonstrate, we’ll look at a simple example. Let’s say we’ve got some function that sums all numbers 0 to n:

def sum_0_to_n(n):
    count = 0
    while n > 0:
        count += n
        n -= 1
    return count

and we’d like to time the performance of this function. Of course we could just modify the function like so:

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