The aim of the decorator module it to simplify the usage of decorators for the average programmer. Version 2.0 is a major release. From the README: Decorator module --------------------------- Home page: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/documentation.html Dependencies: The decorator module is intented for usage in Python 2.4 and above, but it also works with limitated functionality in Python 2.3 and possibily below. Installation: If you have ``easy_install``, just type ``easy_install decorator``, else unzip the distribution archive into a directory called "decorator" in your Python path. For instance, on Unices you could give something like that: $ unzip decorator.zip -d decorator Testing: Just go in the package directory and give $ python doctester.py documentation.txt This will generate the _main.py file containing all the examples discussed in the documentation, and will run the corresponding tests. Backward compatibility ------------------------------------ The 2.0 release of the decorator module breaks backward compatibility in a few minor ways. - now ``decorator`` fails setting the right name for the decorated function when using Python 2.3. I judged that this was an acceptable price considering that Python 2.3 has become pretty old and that in any case using decorators in Python 2.3 is uncommon. - now the decorated function and the original function do not share the same attributes, the decorated function has just a copy of the original function attributes. - now the utility function ``getinfo`` returns a different dictionary; - the utility function ``newfunc`` has been removed; its functionality has been subsumed into ``update_wrapper``. Enjoy, Michele Simionato