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

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Wed Mar 31 16:40:44 EST 2004

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

>>> [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.

That seems like a very odd special case to me. Is it worth it?

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