Colton Myers: Decorators: A Powerful Weapon in your Python Arsenal - PyCon 2014
Speaker: Colton Myers
Decorators are an invaluable addition to anyone's arsenal of python tools and tricks. We will learn what a decorator is, how decorators are created, and then explore some of the cooler applications for decorators in our everyday projects.
Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2014 and https://github.com/PyCon/2014-slides
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