On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:31 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > Yes... in theory. But try rewriting my example to avoid decorator > syntax. It won't work, because of this line: > > orig = globals()[cls.__name__]
That's a nasty, dirty piece of code, and I hope you are thoroughly ashamed of having written it :-) > It depends on the decorator being run before the name actually gets > bound - which means the previous class is available to the decorator. > You can't do that without decorator syntax, or messing around with > multiple names. I wouldn't want to rely on it working with decorator syntax either. Even if it does now, I'm not sure that's a language guarantee. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
