[Python-Dev] my first post: asking about a "decorator" module

[Raymond Hettinger]

> > Yes, there has been quite a bit of interest including several ASPN
> > recipes and a wiki:
> >
> >    http://www.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary
> 
> Thanks, I didn't know about that page. BTW, I notice that all the
> decorators
> in that page are improper, in the sense that they change the signature
of
> the function they decorate. 

Signature changing and signature preserving are probably better
classifications than proper and improper.  Even then, some decorators
like atexit() and classmethod() may warrant their own special
categories.


Raymond