I love the decorator in Python!!!

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 11:27:40 EST 2011


On 12/12/11 3:36 AM, alex23 wrote:
> On Dec 9, 8:08 pm, Robert Kern<robert.k... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/9/11 5:02 AM, alex23 wrote:
>>> The 3rd party 'decorator' module takes care of issues like docstrings
>>> &    function signatures. I'd really like to see some of that
>>> functionality in the stdlib though.
>>
>> Much of it is:
>>
>>     http://docs.python.org/library/functools#functools.update_wrapper
>
> Ah, cheers :) Is that a recent addition? The lack of note makes it
> seem like it was there from the beginning?

The module was added in Python 2.5 as noted at the top of the page.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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