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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 31 13:41:29 EST 2004

If you spell decorators this way:

[decorator] def func(): pass then what will happen when you type [decorator] at an interactive interpreter prompt? >>> [decorator] Will it type ... and wait for you to say more? Or will it evaluate the single-element list whose element is the value of the variable ``decorator'' and print the result?

The latter. You can't add a decorator to a top-level function in interactive mode unless you put it inside an if.

Check out the behavior of the patch I posted (926860).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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