On Apr 7, 2:50 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > Similar functionality is already provided by > functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps(). > Seehttp://docs.python.org/library/functools.html > You might consider proposing the modification of these functions instead.
Unfortunately functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps() are NOT equivalent to the decorator module. My original plan when I wrote the decorator module was to make aware people that the corrent support for decorators in the language is insufficient. I have always seen the decorator module as a temporary hack waiting for a proper solution at the language level. I wanted the possibility to modify the signature of a function. Everybody more or less agreed that this was a good idea on python-dev, and there is also a PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0362/ However, AFAIK, the PEP is still in draft status. Perhaps people wanting this should make some noise on python-dev. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
