On 17 Apr., 14:25, andrew cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS Is there anywhere that explains why Decorators (in the context of > functions/methods) are so good?
We had kind of an inverse discussion a while ago when someone asked about the fate of aspect oriented programming (AOP) in Python. My answer was that technically "aspect weaving" using code generators is dead in application programming [1] and decorators are handy, lightweight, local and controllable while serving very similar purposes. [1] There are occasions where source code weaving might still has its place. Profiling for example or code coverage. Just examine this interesting blog article: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200804/wicked_hack_python_bytecode_tracing.html and the subsequent discussion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
