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

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:12, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 12:49 PM 3/31/04 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >I hadn't thought of those, but the new situation can't be worse than
> >before (decorations following the 'def').  Usually these tools either
> >use some ad-hoc regex-based parsing, which shouldn't have any problems
> >picking out at least the typical forms, or they (hopefully) use the
> >AST produced by the compiler package -- it should be possible for that
> >package to modify the parse tree so that decorators appear as part of
> >the Function node.
> 
> Good point.  Will this be true for the AST branch's AST model as well?

If decorators get added, that's my plan.

Jeremy