[Python-ideas] Problems (and solutions?) in writing decorators

[Christopher Barker]

Also:

@something
def fun():
...

Is exactly the same as:

def fun()
...

fun = something(fun)

So you can’t make a distinction based whether a given usage  is as a
decoration.

-CHB

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:26 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Sylvain MARIE via Python-ideas wrote:
> > `my_decorator(foo)` when foo is a callable will always look like
> > `@my_decorator` applied to function foo, because that's how the language
> is
> > designed.
>
> I don't think it's worth doing anything to change that. Everywhere
> else in the language, there's a very clear distinction between
> 'foo' and 'foo()', and you confuse them at your peril. I don't see
> why decorators should be any different.
>
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