Multiple decorators for a view in Django: Execution order

Now, the decorators in Python work from the inside out

Well I guess that depends on your definition of inside out. In your case, you want @login_required to execute first, and so it should be the “outermost” (top) decorator.

As you noted, your last example works, and is indeed the correct way to do this.

edit

The confusion might be how these particular decorators work.

@login_required(@original_view) returns a new view, which first checks if you are logged in, and then calls original_view

so

    @login_required(
        @active_required(
            @my_view
        )
    )

first checks if you are logged in, then
    first(second) checks if you are active, then
        runs my_view