[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318) (original) (raw)

Charles Cazabon python at discworld.dyndns.org
Fri Mar 26 13:58:21 EST 2004


Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> > foobar: > author = "Guido van Rossum" > deprecated = True > def foobar(self, arg): > pass

The current parser can't deal with "NAME ':'" as a syntax rule, because expressions also start with NAME. I also don't like that you have to repeat the function name. And this would hide the "important" decorators (e.g. classmethod) amongst a large collection of metadata (unless you want to combine this with the "def foo [classmethod] (cls, a, b, c):" syntax.

def foobar(self, arg): .classmethod .deprecated = True .author = "Guido van Rossum"

  pass

?

Charles


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