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28th October 2020

TIL Decorators with optional arguments — [sqlite-utils](https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/) provides [a decorator](https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#registering-custom-sql-functions) for registering custom Python functions that looks like this:

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Posted 28th October 2020 at 9:54 pm

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