On Monday, December 12, 2011 11:36:07 AM UTC+8, alex23 wrote: > On Dec 9, 8:08 pm, Robert Kern <rober...@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?
To wrap a function properly is different from the 1-line lampda. This is really functional programming. Every function can be decorated to change into a different one easily. There is a method to replace every return action of a python function into an yield action without the source code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list