[Python-Dev] Another approach to decorators.

[Michel Pelletier]

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> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:55:19 -0400
> From: Martin Zarate <mzarate at uoguelph.ca>
> Subject: [Python-Dev] Another approach to decorators.
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> @ means nothing to an uninformed eye.  This violates the most important 
> feature of Python (imho) which is that it is "runnable pseudocode".  

Yes!

> I submit that the most Python solution, that would also be legible (but not 
> necessarily very pretty) would be to actually make the decorator a bona-fide 
> block that you nest your class or function into.
> 
> remake functor(foo, bar), staticmethod:
>      def baz():
>            pass
> 
> This concretely shows the relationship of the original define statement to its 
> wrapper objects.  The principle is simple - the remake block will close with 
> only one object in its immediate namespace

I like your idea a lot, buy why just one?  Your scheme of making decorators a
block could be applied to several methods in a class:

class Foo:

  decorate static:

    def static1(blah...):
        pass

    def static2(blah...):
        pass

To me, this idea looks more like Python than all the rest, and allows
you to consolidate related decorated methods and classes.  Nest them to
apply decorators "aquisition style":


class Foo:

  decorate static:

    def static1(blah...):
        pass

    decorate locksFile:

      def static2andLocks(blah...):  # both decorators appy
          pass

-Michel