[Python-3000] PEP Draft: Class Decorators

[Brett Cannon]

On 2/28/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/07, Jack Diederich <jackdied at jackdied.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > History and Implementation
> > ==========================
> >
> > Class decorators were originally proposed in PEP318 [1]_ and were rejected
> > by Guido [2]_ for lack of use cases.  Two years later he saw a use case
> > he liked and gave the go-ahead for a PEP and patch [3]_.
>
> While I can look up the use-case that prompted Guido to change his
> mind via the footnote, I'd appreciate having a sampling of use-cases
> listed in the PEP itself.
>

It would also help as there is no explicit mention of what the
decorator gets passed (I assume the class object, but it is actually
not specified anywhere).  Some pseudo-code of what exactly is
happening wouldn't hurt to more concretely specify it.

And you probably want to submit this to the PEP editors to get it
checked in as Talin keeps talking about class decorators as if they
are already in Py3K.  =)

-Brett