[Python-Dev] Libref sections to put new modules under?

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 12:11:48 CEST 2006


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> What other new modules do we have going in 2.5 that haven't found a home in 
> the documentation yet?  I seem to recall some discussion about a decorator 
> library or functools or something of that sort.

The suggestion with functools was to rename functional.partial to 
functools.partial, and add a functools.decorator function.

The idea of the latter being that sticking @decorator on the front would be 
enough to make a decorator function well-behaved (and future-proof).

Cheers,
Nick.

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