Decorator syntax

[Sean Ross]

"Anthony Baxter" <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1335.1091875631.5135.python-list at python.org...
> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:28:11 +0600, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > How about
> >
> > def foo(a, b, c):
> >      foo.accepts = (int, int, list)
> >      foo.author = 'Chris King'
>
> How would you express foo=classmethod(foo) in this syntax? Far better to
have
> one flexible tool in the toolbox than a host of little, less functional
tools.

Well, You could add a decorate method with the following signature to
functions:

func.decorate(*decorators, **attributes)

Then use:

def foo(a, b, c):
    "foo can decorate itself, from the inside"
    foo.decorate(abstract, synchronized, classmethod,
                       accepts=(int,int,int), author='Chris King')
    ...
    ...