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

Walter Dörwald walter.doerwald at livinglogic.de
Wed Mar 31 13:23:49 EST 2004

Neal Norwitz wrote:

[...] def foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, that, will, not, _fit, on, a, single, line) _ [classmethod, decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3', other='param')]: """The docstring goes here."""

I hope that's a pretty unrealistic case. I think all of the proposed variants are ugly with the definition above. But, this may be more reasonable: _def foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, all, on, a line) _ [classmethod, decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3', other='param')]: """The docstring goes here.""" Writing decorators this way is the least surprising to me. Although, I wish there was a better alternative.

Why not make the def look like a function call, i.e.:

def(classmethod,
    decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3', other='param')) \
   foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, all, on, a line):
   """The docstring goes here."""

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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