[Python-ideas] Decorations

[Scott David Daniels]

Andrey Fedorov (should have written so as to avoid top-posting):
 > Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
 >
 >> Andrey Fedorov wrote:
 >>
 >>> ... It seems to me everything but line 5 "assert..." is cruft...
 >>> it makes sense to call that line the "decoration"....
 >>
 >> You might be interested in the decorator module, which similarly
 >>  tries toreduce the amount of boiler-plate code needed to build
 >> a decorator:
 >>     http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator
 >> (though it does not address exactly the same use case that you
 >> are addressing)
 >
> Thanks for the pointer. One thing the decorator library doesn't solve is
> abstracting the boiler of decorators that take parameters (and making it
> simple to switch between "parametrized" decorators, "naked" decorators, and
> "mixed" decorators). Although it's certainly worth giving some thought to
> and re-considering some of my internals.


Also consider using in functools.partial to convert your "parametrized"
(or "mixed" decorators, I don't quite get your distinction) to "naked"
decorators.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org