[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 10:32, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I don't understand why you prefer your hack over the established way
> to do decorators pre-2.4, which is
> 
>   def foo(): ...
>   foo = staticmethod(foo)
> 
> This works across releases (including IronPython), doesn't require any
> magic, is documented, etc.  So if your main constraint is that it be
> implementable pre-2.4, you already have a solution.  Isn't that much
> better than spending effort on hacks based on sys.settrace (which are
> surely going to produce bafflement from users who aren't familiar with
> that implementation hack)?

+1

-Barry

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