[Python-Dev] Class decorators

Nick Coghlan wrote:

[ much good, including the @instance decorator ]

P.S. If all you want is somewhere to store mutable state between invocations, you can always use the function's own attribute space

>>> def f(): print "Hi world from %s!" % f >>> f() Hi world from ! Not really. That assumes the expected name is (permanently) bound to *this* function in this function's globals. That's normally true, but not always, so relying on it seems wrong. >>> f="a string" >>> g() Hi world from a string! And of course, sometimes I really do want shared state, or helpers (like other methods on a class), or one-time ininitialization plus per-call parameters (like the send method on 2.5 generators), or ... -jJ