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

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Tue Mar 30 17:00:50 EST 2004


From: Guido van Rossum

> Another possibility that has been suggested is > > [decorator] > def func(arg, arg): And one that I currently favor. I'm out of bandwidth to participate on a msg-by-msg basis, but perhaps folks can see if they can come to terms with this solution?

OTOH, if there is any code currently like that (which I highly doubt) then it's quite possible that it contains side effects e.g.

[synchronized(lock)]
def func (arg):

would currently call synchronized before the function definition - if this syntax were changed to be the decorator syntax that would change it's meaning.

As I said though, I think it's highly unlikely to exist in practice.

Tim Delaney



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