Re: [Python-ideas] setting function properties with a decorator syntax

spir wrote:

A "parameterisable" generator factory: [...]

Good lord, no! Nooo! "power" is one thing with one semantic meaning "range" is another thing with another semantic meaning There is absolutely no excuse for mixing the two implementation into a "power-range" monstrosity. Implement the two separately and make some custom function composition like: def pow(x, n): return x**n def pow_o_range(n, a, b): return [(x, pow(x, n)) for x in range(a,b)] for i, x in pow_o_range(3, 1, 10): print "%s:%s" % (i,x), # prints "1:1 2:8 3:27 4:64 5:125 6:216 7:343 8:512 9:729"