decorator module in stdlib?

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On Apr 7, 2:50 am, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> Similar functionality is already provided by
> functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps().
> Seehttp://docs.python.org/library/functools.html
> You might consider proposing the modification of these functions instead.

Unfortunately functools.update_wrapper() and functools.wraps()
are NOT equivalent to the decorator module. My original
plan when I wrote the decorator module was to make aware
people that the corrent support for decorators in the language
is insufficient. I have always seen the decorator module
as a temporary hack waiting for a proper solution
at the language level. I wanted the possibility to modify the
signature of a function. Everybody more or less agreed
that this was a good idea on python-dev, and there is
also a PEP:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0362/

However, AFAIK, the PEP is still in draft status.
Perhaps people wanting this should make some noise
on python-dev.

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