[Python-Dev] Re: metaclass and author are already decorators (original) (raw)

Paul Morrow pm_mon at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 21 23:34:16 CEST 2004

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 05:15 PM 8/21/04 -0400, Paul Morrow wrote:

Christophe Cavalaria wrote:

can it be ? There's also the fact that it can't handle named parameters like a regular function call. You can't write that : def foo(): decoration = (1,1,param=True)

As far as I know, we can't do that with the current decorator proposals either. @decoration(1,1,param=True) def foo(whatever): pass

Ok, then whatever changes you've made to the Python system to support that would allow the same syntax to be used in what I'm suggesting.

 def foo(whatever):
     __decoration__ = (1,1,param=True)

 def decoration(decoratedFunc, a, b, param=False):
     __decorator__ = True
     __version__ = '0.1'
     # body of 'decoration' decorator function goes here...

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