Revised PEP 318 - Function/Method Decorator Syntax

[Jeremy Fincher]

Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> wrote in message news:<6qwufu12ee.fsf at salmakis.intevation.de>...
> *compiled*?
> 
> Surely you mean "when the def-statement is executed."

...

> >     In either case, the modified function is bound to the function
> >     name at compile time.
>
> Again, I think you mean "when the def-statement is executed."

No, he probably means "compile time."  Python is compiled to bytecode
separate from being execute, the the def statement is executed at
compile time.

Jeremy