Question

from functools import  wraps

def a():
    a='aa'
def b():
    b="bbb"

c=wraps(a)(b)
print c#what happen?

What is the wraps mean, example is the best.

Answer 1

Quoted from the documentation:

functools.wraps(wrapped[, assigned][, updated]) 

This is a convenience function for invoking partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped, assigned=assigned, updated=updated) as a function decorator when defining a wrapper function. For example:

>>> from functools import wraps
>>> def my_decorator(f):
...     @wraps(f)
...     def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
...         print 'Calling decorated function'
...         return f(*args, **kwds)
...     return wrapper
...
>>> @my_decorator
... def example():
...     """Docstring"""
...     print 'Called example function'
...
>>> example()
Calling decorated function
Called example function
>>> example.__name__
'example'
>>> example.__doc__
'Docstring'

Without the use of this decorator factory, the name of the example function would have been ‘wrapper’, and the docstring of the original example() would have been lost.