[Python-Dev] PEP 362: 4th edition (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jun 18 22:25:15 CEST 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

The rationale is that sometimes you need to modify signatures. For instance, in decorators.

A decorator should make a modified copy, not modify it in place (since the signature of the decorated function does not change, and you have no guarantee that that function is no longer accessible.)

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)



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