On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 10:15, Daniel Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > But, your proposed syntax is not usable because it is ambiguous. Exactly what > you propose is already used for decorators in a way that the parser would not > be able to distinguish a decorator from an import expression. Consider: > > @ham.spam() # import expression or decorator? > > def eggs(): > ... > > This currently parses as a decorator and for backwards compatibility that > must not change, which means that import expressions would be usable in some > contexts and not others purely based on what follows them.
Perhaps `some_regex = re::compile(r"...")` could work. That is, <dotted-path>::<name-to-import> to delineate the import. @breakfast.ham::spam def eggs(): pass Cheers _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VXOSHFQDLPI5KXVNXWKFMRZOZHYJLZL5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/