[Python-Dev] Class decorators (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Mar 28 20:46:50 CEST 2006

At 10:01 AM 3/28/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

OK, I'm convinced (mostly by the awful hackery that Phillip so proudly exposed :-).

Just as a historical note, here's where you previously rejected the same hackery as an argument for supporting class decorators:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043462.html

Ironically, the subsequent discussion following the above message brought me around to your point of view. :)

Or more precisely, the subsequent discussion and examples convinced me that putting class decorators on top of the class was bad for readability, vs. putting them in the body just after the docstring. As you said, "the use cases are certainly very different than those for function/method decorators".

So at this point I'd rather see a way to make my hackery go away (or become part of the standard library in some fashion) rather than simply mimic @decorators for classes.

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