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

Walter Dörwald walter.doerwald at livinglogic.de
Wed Mar 31 13:58:09 EST 2004

Guido van Rossum wrote:

A simple issue I have with: [classmethod, logged, debug] def function(args): ... Is "How do you type this into Idle?" I realize this is not the most important of considerations, but access to experimentation is going to be vital. You can always force with: >>> if True: [classmethod, logged, debug] def function(args): ...

but I wonder if we want to go that route. Since it will normally be part of a class, you shouldn't have any problem. I expect that toplevel functions with decorators will be rare enough to put up with the "if True" work-around.

This looks ugly to me. I do have top level functions that would use decorators because those functions will be put into a class as classmethods and this class will be put into sys.modules instead of the original module. Replacing

def foo(cls): ... foo = classmethod(foo)

with

if True: [classmethod] def foo(cls): ...

doesn't look that attractive to me.

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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