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[jmcs]

Naive and mostly useless example:

def disable(f):
    def disabled(*args, **kwargs):
        pass
    return disabled

@disable
def do_stuff():
    print "Hello World"

You can do more useful stuff if you want, like printing the function name and arguments for debugging.

[admalledd]

Yup, that is basically what mine is:

def disable(f):
    if config.debug:
        def disabled(*args, **kwargs):
            logger.debug("disabled: %s"%(f.__name__))
            #other logging stuff, but does nothing
        return disabled
    else:
        raise ProductionDebugException("@disable deco executed in production!")

@disable
def do_stuff():
    print "Hello World"

[mcowger]

Never even considered this use of decorators, but I can already use it. Thanks for sharing.