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

[David Abrahams]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

>> 	>>> [decorator]
>> 
>> Will it type ... and wait for you to say more?  Or will it evaluate the
>> single-element list whose element is the value of the variable ``decorator''
>> and print the result?
>
> The latter.  You can't add a decorator to a top-level function in
> interactive mode unless you put it inside an if.

That seems like a very odd special case to me.  Is it worth it?

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