[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax (original) (raw)

Christophe Cavalaria chris.cavalaria at free.fr
Mon Aug 9 22:04:41 CEST 2004

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

David Eppstein wrote:

With @, a third party tool has an unambiguous indication of whether a line is a decorator. With |, it is not possible to recognize decorators with a regular expression, instead you have to do some context-free parsing to determine whether some previous line has an unclosed paren (in which case the | is a binop rather than a decorator). _"_ @decorator #" """ @decorator """ (etc)

Let me continue the (etc) for you : """ def foo(): return 0 """

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