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

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Fri Mar 19 03:33:40 CET 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:28 PM, David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
> I don't remember seeing much code using function properties. I would
> probably just create a new decorator for this.

I've not either, but if we determine that this is a useful facility to
include in the standard library, I'd be in favor of something like
this:

@setattr(printable=True)
def f():
    """Example function"""


  -Fred

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