[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 3 02:58:28 CEST 2004

>Can it? I must've missed that. It sure sounds like an incredible >hack -- how to you prevent the default behavior that the list of >decorators is thrown away by the interpreter?

By using sys.settrace (and a careful tracer implementation to avoid interfering with debuggers or other active tracers):

Ah, yuck. Not an acceptable solution. And it doesn't let you write

[classmethod]

-- you have to wrap the 'classmethod' in something relatively ugly.

But let's move on.

>Because that syntax received significant boohs when I presented it at >EuroPython.

And "@" didn't??? Ah well. C'est la vie.

Indeed it didn't.

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

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