[Python-Dev] Definining properties - a use case for class decorators?

Wed Oct 19 21:46:12 CEST 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>> >>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip J Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
>> Phillip> At 11:43 AM 10/19/2005 -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >> >> <callable> <name> <tuple>:
> >> >> <definitions>
> >> ...
> >> 
> Steve> Wow, that's really neat. And you save a keyword! ;-)
> >> 
> >> Two if you add a builtin called "function" (get rid of "def").
>> Phillip> Not unless the tuple is passed in as an abstract syntax tree or
> Phillip> something.
>> Hmmm... Maybe I misread something then. I saw (I think) that
>> type Foo (base):
> def __init__(self):
> pass
>> would be equivalent to
>> class Foo (base):
> def __init__(self):
> pass
>> and thought that
>> function myfunc(arg1, arg2):
> pass
>> would be equivalent to
>> def myfunc(arg1, arg2):
> pass
>> where "function" a builtin that when called returns a new function.

For it to work in classes, it would need to execute the body of the
class, which is precisely why it can't work with functions.
 - Josiah