-----Original Message----- From: Steven Bethard [mailto:steven.bethard@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:54 AM
On 5/15/07, Aaron Brady <castironpi@comcast.net> wrote:
You might be able to get away without a PEP, but you'll definitely need to post an implementation patch to the bug tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470). Once you've posted your implementation, you should send an email to python-dev asking folks what they think about it. Be sure to give some code examples that using this decorator would simplify.
Code with proposal are in SourceForge [ 1719222 ] new functools. Python feature Functools gains a new decorator. `Defaults' allows its caller to placehold non-None defaults; it becomes unnecessary to know the value a place defaults to. It might be useful in cases where you want the calling signature to look alike for a group of dispatched functions and the added overhead the decorator adds isn't a problem. But you probably wouldn't want that overhead all the time, so having it as an optional decorator would be good. -Ron Adam What -do- you think about it?