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 lexical scoping, while the class or instance that was used to make the
 current call is identified based on the first argument passed to the method.
 
-After the class object is created, any class decorators included in the
-function definition are invoked and the resulting object is bound in the
-local namespace to the name of the class.
+After the class object is created, it is passed to the class decorators
+included in the class definition (if any) and the resulting object is bound
+in the local namespace as the defined class.
 
 .. seealso::