[Python-Dev] Questions about '@' in pep 318 (original) (raw)

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Fri Aug 6 14:13:30 CEST 2004

By "pythonic" I mean "in accordance with other Python syntax". And I am not against '@', but rather against placing decorators before the def. IMHO, it is confusing, error-prone and out of style.

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Roman Suzi wrote: > I think @ before def are unacceptable because they aren't too Pythonic > and thus break style and aestetics of Python.

This is not a convincing statement. Who is going to define what is Pythonic and what is not? My understanding of that term was that it can only refer to programs (e.g. a function could do something in a Pythonic way - namely, if that is how other Python practitioners would have written it). The language itself is by nature Pythonic - even if it would add curly braces. Of course, Pythonic version 2.4 differs from Pythonic version 1.4. Regards, Martin

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