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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 1 14:21:12 EST 2004

How about INDENT[...]:DEDENT? <0.5 serious>

Alas, won't work -- if the decoration is the first thing in a class body, you'd have something starting with double indent, but the lexer never gives you that.

class C:

    [staticmethod]
def foo():
    pass

This would be tokenized as

'class' 'C' ':' NEWLINE INDENT '[' 'staticmethod' ']' NEWLINE

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

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