bruno: > Ho, and yes : one day, you'll get why it's such a good thing to unite > functions and methods !-)
me: > PS Is there anywhere that explains why Decorators (in the context of > functions/methods) are so good? I've read lots of things saying they > are good, but no real justification of why. in the text above i wrote "Decorators" rather than "Descriptors". it was in response to bruno's comment, also above. sorry for the confusion. also, sorry for the inflammatory language - by referring to the titanic i didn't mean that python was a disaster, rather that the "iceberg" is still there (i am not 100% sure what the iceberg is, but it's something to do with making namespaces explicit in some places and not others). anyway, it was only a small point. thanks for all the replies. didn't respond earlier as i was at work. now i can go back and polish that code... andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list