Sylvain MARIE via Python-ideas writes:
I totally understand your point of view. However on the other hand, many very popular open source projects out there have the opposite point of view and provide decorators that can seamlessly be used with and without arguments (pytest, attrs, click, etc.). So after a while users get used to this behavior and expect it from all libraries. Making it easy to implement is therefore something quite important for developers not to spend time on this useless “feature”.
That doesn't follow. You can also take it that "educating users to know the difference between a decorator and a decorator factory is therefore something quite important for developers not to spend time on this useless 'feature'." I'm not a fan of either position. I don't see why developers of libraries who want to provide this to their users shouldn't have "an easy way to do it", but I also don't see a good reason to encourage syntactic ambiguity by providing it in the standard library. I think this is a feature that belongs in the area of "you *could* do it, but *should* you?" If the answer is "maybe", IMO PyPI is the right solution for distribution. Steve -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN