Decorators run before function it is decorating is called?

Question

As an example:

def get_booking(f=None):
    print "Calling get_booking Decorator"
    def wrapper(request, **kwargs):
        booking = _get_booking         


        

Answer 1

I believe python decorators are just syntactic sugar.

@foo
def bar ():
    pass

is the same thing as

def bar ():
    pass
bar = foo(bar)

As you can see, foo is being called even though bar has not been called. This is why you see the output from your decorator function. Your output should contain a single line for every function you applied your decorator to.