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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 31 22:41:00 EST 2004

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:21, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Another possibility that has been suggested is > > [decorator] > def func(arg, arg):

And one that I currently favor. I'm out of bandwidth to participate on a msg-by-msg basis, but perhaps folks can see if they can come to terms with this solution?

I don't like it. It already has a meaning (albeit fairly useless) and it doesn't seem obvious from just looking at it that the decorator is connected to the following method. It doesn't taste Pythonic to me.

-Barry

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