[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?

[Guido van Rossum]

Is anybody seriously trying to come up with a single alternative
decorator proposal that most folks "out there" can support, to be
presented to me (with implementation, please!) in time for 2.4b1?

The endless repetition of old proposals on the one hand, and the
outrageous overgeneralizations being proposed on the other hand, make
me wonder if @decorator is going to win by default -- because nobody
can agree on a better proposal.  Which is fine with me, but let it be
clear that if that happens, the community has itself to blame (or to
thank, depending on which syntax you favor :-).  The ipython and Leo
authors have already said that their tools will survive @decorators.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)