OOP and decorators

Question

are decorators obsolete or not a good practice in object oriented programming? think this will end up in not maintainable code?!

Answer 1

Oh, well used decorators are very useful as they can isolate business logic for administrative logic (e.g. caching a web page when fetching it). Makes the code more maintainable.

And I quite dislike OOP for the sake of OOP, so I don't use it when there is no use

Answer 2

A class can be a decorator, actually.

Decorators increase code reusability : e.g.
@caching
def fetch(url):
pass

that would cache your page, if you did it right. Plain and simple, helps reusability.

They are NOT obsolete, actually more useful now than ever

Answer 3

it's not better to build a own class then to do caching?