[Python-Dev] method decorators (PEP 318)

[Guido van Rossum]

> If it's only classmethod you're worried about obscuring, why not:
> 
> def foobar(class cls, otherarg, ...):
>      # ...

Not quite -- I'm worried about things *like* classmethod and
staticmethod, and I want to provide you with the ability to write your
own.

> And then move all other decorators into some kind of delimited block
> in the function body, just before the docstring.

Aha!  So you agree with that part.  I rest my case.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)