[Python-Dev] decorator support (original) (raw)

Xavier Combelle xavier.combelle at free.fr
Sat Sep 18 02:57:36 CEST 2004

This could be used to define a decorator @copyfuncattrs def trace(f): def dotrace(*args): print "invoking", f.name, args return f(*args) return dotrace

I am quite new in Python, and I do my first suggestions. (One time I should begin)

If there is a general agreement about what to do to wrap a decorator, why no use the following syntax

@decorator def trace(f): def do_trace(*args): print "invoking", f.name, args return f(*args) return do_trace

I would prefer it because it explain what the method do instead of how it implement it. Generally speaking, I believe the decarators should be very expressive, just because even if it is not a part of the language, it's a kind of new syntax. For the same reason, Python should incorporate just a reduce set of decorators.

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