>> 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.
Exactly, that's why I think the decorator module would be a useful addition to functools. > 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. I've posted it to python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/088387.html Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
