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Naturally, there’s much more to the decorator and metaclass stories than I’ve shown here. Although they are a general mechanism, decorators and metaclasses are advanced features of interest primarily to tool writers, not application programmers, so we’ll defer additional coverage until the final part of this book:
- Chapter 37 shows how to code properties using function decorator syntax.
- Chapter 38 has much more on decorators, including more comprehensive examples.
- Chapter 39 covers metaclasses, and more on the class and instance management story.
Although these chapters cover advanced topics, they’ll also provide us with a chance to see Python at work in more substantial examples than much of the rest of the book was able to provide.
