Built-in Decorators

Python comes with several built-in decorators. The big three are:

• @classmethod
• @staticmethod
• @property

There are also decorators in various parts of Python’s standard library. One example would be functools.wraps. We will be limiting our scope to the three above though.

@classmethod and @staticmethod

I have never actually used these myself, so I did a fair bit of research. The <*@classmethod>* decorator can be called with with an instance of a class or directly by the class itself as its first argument. According to the Python documentation: It can be ...