Question

I know of @staticmethod, @classmethod, and @property, but only through scattered documentation. What are all the function decorators that are built into Python? Is that in the docs? Is there an up-to-date list maintained somewhere?

Answer 1

I don’t think so. Decorators don’t differ from ordinary functions, you only call them in a fancier way.

For finding all of them try searching Built-in functions list, because as you can see in Python glossary the decorator syntax is just a syntactic sugar, as the following two definitions create equal functions (copied this example from glossary):

def f(...):     ... f = staticmethod(f)  @staticmethod def f(...): 

So any built-in function that returns another function can be used as a decorator. Question is – does it make sense to use it that way? 🙂

functools module contains some functions that can be used as decorators, but they aren’t built-ins you asked for.