[Python-ideas] setting function properties with a decorator syntax

[Andrey Fedorov]

spir wrote:

> A "parameterisable" generator factory: [...]
>

Good lord, no! Nooo!

"power" is one thing with one semantic meaning
"range" is another thing with another semantic meaning


There is absolutely no excuse for mixing the two implementation into a
"power-range" monstrosity. Implement the two separately and make some custom
function composition like:

def pow(x, n):
    return x**n

def pow_o_range(n, a, b):
    return [(x, pow(x, n)) for x in range(a,b)]

for i, x in pow_o_range(3, 1, 10):
   print "%s:%s" % (i,x),

# prints "1:1 2:8 3:27 4:64 5:125 6:216 7:343 8:512 9:729"
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