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

Mark Russell marktrussell at btopenworld.com
Mon Apr 5 06:54:31 EDT 2004

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:38, David Abrahams wrote:

Not bad. Also tolerable:

as [classmethod] def foo(bar, baz): pass

The trouble with that is that its less clearly an error at the moment (e.g.:

as = [ 'pathological' ]
classmethod = 0

as [classmethod]
def foo(bar, baz):
    pass

is actually legal right now). The nice thing about "[as xxx]" is that there's no way you can confuse it with a subscript expression.

Mark

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