First, thanks for the tip of 'tabs'. I keep forgetting Outlook has some interesting rules about displaying text.
Thanks for the comment about happening at load time. That resolved the problem (in my thinking)! I don't believe I have an issue at all... Peace, CG. On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:52:18 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > Chance Ginger wrote: >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:51:18 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> >> > Chance Ginger" wrote: >> > >> >> If I define a decorator like: >> >> >> >> def t(x) : >> >> def I(x) : return x >> >> return I >> > >> > ... you get a syntax error. >> > >> >> It isn't a syntax error...I tried it before I posted. In fact >> def t(x) : >> def I(x) : return x >> return I >> >> is correct. > > You've made the unfortunate mistake of indenting it with tabs, which do > not show up on some newsreaders. I see the tabs in Google; people > using Microsoft Outlook do not. > > Always use spaces when posting, and use them in your code as well. > Spaces are the current recommended practice, and in the future tabs > might become illegal. I'd prefer tabs myself, but it's more important > to respect community standards than to stick to some silly preference > you have. > > >> Decorators are a way to add "syntactic" sugar to Python, >> extending it in ways that make it useful for tools. What >> I am trying to do is lessen the impact on the time used >> in executing Python code when I use some forms of decorators. > > One suggestion. Have you run the script, determined it's too slow, and > are trying to optimize? If not (and it doesn't sound like you are), I > suggest that it's too soon to worry about whether this decorator has > any overhead. You may end up doing a lot of work optimizing that will > ultimately have very little benefit. > > Having said that, this decorator will not affect calling overhead at > all. The decorator is applied when the module is loaded, not when the > decorated function is called. > > > Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list