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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 3 16:32:32 CEST 2004

In practical terms, all this means is that I'll just use the hacked syntax until I no longer need to support Python 2.3.

I don't understand why you prefer your hack over the established way to do decorators pre-2.4, which is

def foo(): ... foo = staticmethod(foo)

This works across releases (including IronPython), doesn't require any magic, is documented, etc. So if your main constraint is that it be implementable pre-2.4, you already have a solution. Isn't that much better than spending effort on hacks based on sys.settrace (which are surely going to produce bafflement from users who aren't familiar with that implementation hack)?

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

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