# Python Plugin: Decorator Ordering
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-plugin-decorator-ordering/7813
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** python
**Created:** [August 12, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-plugin-decorator-ordering/7813 "2021-08-12T18:48:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Jared\_Blanchard](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jared_Blanchard)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-plugin-decorator-ordering/7813/1 "2021-08-12T18:48:50Z")
I’ve noticed when I add decorators in a plugin, they do not appear in the same order they appear in the code. Is there a way to determine the ordering of the decorators, maybe some sort of priority variable?
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-plugin-decorator-ordering/7813/2 "2021-08-12T18:54:07Z")
Unfortunately, no. AFAIK, the methods in Python are kept in unordered map so I found the method order keeps on changing each time the module is imported.
The only way is to use `xml` at the proxy level and then order the properties the way you want in the XML itself. But that forces you to write the entire XML manually.