Re: [python-uk] Advice on decorator grammar

2013-04-04 Thread Nick Murdoch
Hi Simon, It might be of use to you to know that the decorator syntax is actually a syntactic shortcut for a longer way of writing the same thing. For instance, @mydecorator def foo(a, b): pass is identical to def foo(a, b): pass foo = mydecorator(foo) If you wanted to only apply th

Re: [python-uk] Londoners - interested by a pyramid meetup?

2013-04-04 Thread Matt Hamilton
...and it was written by some of the original brains behind Zope. So it has a lot of experiences learnt from the good and bad things from the Zope world. Eg if you want to (but you don't have to) you can use ZPT, the ZODB, and ZCML with Pyramid natively. Conversely you could use Mako, SqlAlchemy

Re: [python-uk] Londoners - interested by a pyramid meetup?

2013-04-04 Thread Rachid Belaid
Hi James, Great to see somebody else interested. About the date, I was thinking of doing it 2 weeks after the django (soon) and python meetup ( 18 April) . First to not clashing with them with date and secondly to be able to talk with some peoples there who could be interested by pyramid but may

Re: [python-uk] Advice on decorator grammar

2013-04-04 Thread Simon Yarde
Thanks Nick. I wonder if you see any use or validity in an expanded grammar allowing class-initialisation within the decorator syntax? Or as Stestagg suggests, there is no real practical need for it? > decoratedfoo.orig(1, 2) # run original function Thanks for highlighting decorato