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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 28 20:34:29 EST 2004

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com>:

Had function attributes been available at that time the special nature of "if the first object in the module/function/class is a string literal, make it the docstring" wouldn't have been (as) necessary.

Maybe we could do with some more special cases concerning literals of other kinds?

def foo(): {'author': "Guido", 'deprecated': 1} ...

or

def foo(): class attributes: author = "Guido" deprecated = 1 ...

Everything inside these would have to be constant (if you want them computed at run time, you have to use the old fashioned method).

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