[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Apr 8 20:36:01 EDT 2004 

Mark> I've put a patch at python.org/sf/932100 which does this, plus
Mark> changes to Grammar/Grammar, compile.c etc - it implements the
Mark> syntax:

Mark>       [as classmethod]
Mark>       def foo(cls): pass

Mark> The newline is optional:

Mark>       [as foo, bar, baz] def foo(cls): pass

Mark> is also legal.

Does it treat '[' and 'as' as separate tokens so whitespace can occur between them?

Note that the second alternative is likely to break all sorts of auxiliary tools which scan Python source. etags/ctags and python-mode come to mind. Clearly, python-mode is well within our domain, but other syntax coloring tools aren't.

Skip

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