On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > The decorator module [1] written by Michele Simionato is a very useful > tool for maintaining function signatures while applying a decorator. > Many different projects implement their own versions of the same > functionality, for example turbogears has its own utility for this, I > guess others do something similar too. > > Was the issue whether to include this module in the stdlib raised? If > yes, what were the arguments against it? If not, what do you folks > think, shouldn't it be included? I certainly think it should be.
Similar functionality is already provided by functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps(). See http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html You might consider proposing the modification of these functions instead. Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
