[Python-Dev] 2.5 open issues

[Collin Winter]

On 4/28/06, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's no owner for these items.  If no one takes them, they won't
> get done and I will move them to deferred within a week:
>
>   * Add @decorator decorator to functional, rename to functools?
>     What's the benefit of @decorator?  Who made functional?  It's new
> in 2.5, right?  If so, move it or it will be functional for all 2.x.

The PEP responsible for functional (PEP 309) was written by Peter
Harris, with the partial class (the module's sole member for a while)
coded by Hye-Shik Chang and Raymond Hettinger. Comments in the module
list Hye-Shik Chang as the maintainer.

I'd very much like to see functional renamed to functools, and I've
cooked up the necessary changes to handle the move (SF #1478788).

Collin Winter