Python 201 - How to use functools.wraps

Making Decorators Better!

There is a little known tool that I wanted to talk about today. It is called wraps and it’s a part of the functools module. You can use wraps as a decorator to fix docstrings and names of decorated functions. Why does this matter? This sounds like a weird edge case at first, but if you’re writing an API or any code that someone other than yourself will …