Decorator Pattern – In object-oriented programming, the decorator pattern is a design pattern that allows behaviour to be added to an existing object dynamically. The decorator pattern can be used to extend (decorate) the functionality of a certain object at run-time, independently of other instances of the same class, provided some groundwork is done at design time.
Decorators in Python – Despite the name, Python decorators are not an implementation of the decorator pattern. The decorator pattern is a design pattern used in statically typed object-oriented programming languages to allow functionality to be added to objects at run time; Python decorators add functionality to functions and methods at definition time, and thus are a higher-level construct than decorator-pattern classes.
The decorator pattern itself is trivially implementable in Python, because the language is duck typed, and so is not usually considered as such. So in Python a decorator is any callable Python object that is used to modify a function, method or class definition.
I hope I made the difference clear. Just in case you did not completely understand, please go through these links. You will come out more than clear at the end of it –
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How to make a chain of function decorators?
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Implementing the decorator pattern in Python
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What is the difference between using decorators and extending a sub class by inheritance?
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Python Class Decorator
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PyWiki – Python Decorators – A detailed discourse
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Python Decorators Made Easy
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Source 1 & source 2