Aug. 7, 2004
9:14 p.m.
If the syntax does end up along these lines (and I'm expressing no opinion either way), then maybe it would be worth explicitly telling people (i.e. in PEP 8) that they ought to put a blank line before decorators to make it clear?
Does PEP 8 tell people that they should put a blank before comment lines introducing a function?
No, but it tells them to *separate* methods by blank lines. So that's pretty clear guidance for where the put blank lines relative to the decorators. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)