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## [Primer: Python First Class Functions and Decorators](https://www.byteacademy.co/blog/python-functions-decorators)

 By [lakshmi b](https://www.byteacademy.co/blog/author/lakshmi-b) on Aug 12, 2020 9:26:02 AM

Python functions are a lot more flexible than you would think. They are much more than just code generation specifications for a compiler. They are full-blown objects stored in pieces of memory as such that they can be freely passed around a program and called indirectly. They also support operations that have little to do with calls at all like ***Attribute storage and Annotation***.

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