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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Wed Mar 29 08:11:06 CEST 2006

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 00:48, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

I think the existing usage for classes is perfectly readable. The @-syntax works well for functions as well.

On re-reading what I wrote, I don't think I actually clarified the point I was trying to make originally.

My point wasn't that I desparately need @-syntax for class decorators (I don't), or see it as inherantly superior in some way. It's much simpler than that: I just want to be able to use the same syntax for a group of use cases regardless of whether the target is a function or a class.

This fits into the nice-to-have category for me, since the use case can be the same regardless of whether I'm decorating a class or a function. (I will note that when this use case applies to a function, it's usually a module-level function I'm decorating rather than a method.)

My other example, the zope.formlib example, has only ever involved a single decorator, and is always a method. It could conceivably be applied to a nested class without much of a stretch, however.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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