[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:02 PM 4/1/04 -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>No, that's a misunderstanding.. it was by coincidence alone that the last 
>example I gave had two callbacks with an identical type signature.  Using 
>a "with" block for decorators is as nonsensical as this:
>
>with args(x):
>
>     def foo:
>         pass
>
>     def bar:
>         pass

I'm not sure I'd go that far.  For 'classmethod' it can actually be 
attractive to group a bunch of them together.  On the other hand, that's 
the only use case that comes to mind for grouping a bunch of functions 
under the same decorator list.