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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2014-08-05 05:14:28 (GMT)
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#21928: clarify functools.wraps docs.
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@@ -413,9 +413,10 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
.. decorator:: wraps(wrapped, assigned=WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS, updated=WRAPPER_UPDATES)
- 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:
+ This is a convenience function for invoking :func:`update_wrapper` as a
+ function decorator when defining a wrapper function. It is equivalent to
+ ``partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped, assigned=assigned, updated=updated)``.
+ For example::
>>> from functools import wraps
>>> def my_decorator(f):