is @ operator popular now?

[oyster]

 sorry, I mean "PEP 465 - A dedicated infix operator for matrix
multiplication" on
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html#whatsnew-pep-465

2017-07-15 20:05 GMT+08:00 Matt Wheeler <m at funkyhat.org>:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, 12:35 oyster, <lepto.python at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> as the title says. has @ been used in projects?
>
>
> Strictly speaking, @ is not an operator.
> It delimits a decorator statement (in python statements and operations are
> not the same thing).
> However, to answer the question you actually asked, yes, all the time.
>
> For specific examples, see:
> pytest's fixtures
> contextlib.contextmanager (makes creating context managers mich simpler in
> most cases)
> @property @classmethod etc. etc. (I sometimes see these used a bit too
> freely, when a plain attribute or a function at the module level would be
> more appropriate)
>
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