[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 06:17, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> Three different positions for decorators have been suggested:
> 
>     (a) def [decorator] func(arg, arg):
> 
>     (b) def func [decorator] (arg, arg):
> 
>     (c) def func(arg, arg) [decorator]:

Another possibility that has been suggested is

[decorator] 
def func(arg, arg):

This has some of the same readability benefits as (c).

Jeremy