Guido writes:
One advantage mentioned by Fredrik Lundh of this, and also of my other favorite, over "decorators-after-args" is that the decorators are easily cut-and-pasted -- it's much easier to cut whole lines than sections of a line, and cutting a multiple-lines-spanning section is even worse.
Yeah, it makes the code marginally easier to edit, but it also makes the code harder to read. Used to be that "def" and "class" would stand out in the file, being at the left edge. Now you've got these new lines, with, God help us, new syntax, cluttering up the left edge. What's even worse, these decorators come before the function, so you encounter them before you even know what function you're talking about. A reading nightmare. I still prefer "def FUNCTION (ARGS) as DECORATOR[S]:", myself. Bill