[Python-Dev] @decoration of classes

[Nick Coghlan]

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
> class factory:
> 
>     @register
>     def __call__(self):
>         pass
> 
> Just as an additional data point - obviously not applicable in all
> cases.

Yep, and it's obviously possible to do that now with just function decorators. 
Getting my head around what that actually *does* is a little trickier, though 
(as near as I can tell, it will register a standalone function named __call__, 
with nothing linking it to the containing class).

What a class decorator allows is the registration of the whole process of 
invoking the metaclass and hence __new__ and __init__ as a single unit.

Anyway, I don't particularly feel the lack of class decorators, but I thought I 
should mention this (perhaps small) category of non-transforming decorators as a 
situation where class decoration would make more sense to me than using a metaclass.

Cheers,
Nick.

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