Aug. 3, 2004
2:32 p.m.
In practical terms, all this means is that I'll just use the hacked syntax until I no longer need to support Python 2.3.
I don't understand why you prefer your hack over the established way to do decorators pre-2.4, which is def foo(): ... foo = staticmethod(foo) This works across releases (including IronPython), doesn't require any magic, is documented, etc. So if your main constraint is that it be implementable pre-2.4, you already have a solution. Isn't that much better than spending effort on hacks based on sys.settrace (which are surely going to produce bafflement from users who aren't familiar with that implementation hack)? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)