[Python-Dev] Call for defense of @decorators

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Aug 6 13:36:55 CEST 2004


"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> Martin makes a good point.  Guido could threaten to remove the feature
>> by beta 1 (and thus for 2.4 final) if the PEP is not brought up to date.
>> not-that-i'm-volunteering-'cause-i'd-rather-see-it-done-ly y'rs,
>
> I'm atleast volunteering to take the code out if no proper
> implementation (including documentation and test cases) is delivered by
> some deadline.

Uhh, there *are* test cases (test_decorators).  I'm fairly sure
there's at least ref manual documentation (in ref7.tex).  Possibly
there should be something elsewhere -- in the description of
classmethod?

Or are you talking in the abstract here?

Cheers,
mwh

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