Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

March 31, 2004


      Neal Norwitz wrote:
...
[...]
        def foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, that, will, not,
                fit, on, a, single, line) \
        [classmethod, decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3',
                               other='param')]:
            """The docstring goes here."""
I hope that's a pretty unrealistic case.  I think all of the proposed
variants are ugly with the definition above.  But, this may be more
reasonable:
def foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, all, on, a line) \
               [classmethod, 
                decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3', other='param')]:
            """The docstring goes here."""
Writing decorators this way is the least surprising to me.  Although,
I wish there was a better alternative.
Why not make the def look like a function call, i.e.:

    def(classmethod,
        decorate(author='Someone', version='1.2.3', other='param')) \
       foo(cls, lots, of, arguments, all, on, a line):
       """The docstring goes here."""

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald