On 06/07/16 20:35, bruce wrote:
> But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed them!
Thinking about this a little wider than Python.
Decorators are a standard software design pattern and were
first(?) formally documented in the famous book known as the
"Gang of Four" (GoF
On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 03:35:16PM -0400, bruce wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Saw the decorator thread earlier.. didn't want to pollute it. I know,
> I could google!
>
> But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed
> them!
Sometimes you find yourself writing many functions (or metho
> As to who suggested them you'd need to go back through the
> PEPs to see who first suggested it, and then maybe more to see
> who's idea finally got accepted. I think it was in Python 2.5.
Hi Bruce,
Yes, it happened back around 2003:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/
Decorators
On 06/07/16 20:35, bruce wrote:
> Saw the decorator thread earlier.. didn't want to pollute it. I know, I
> could google!
>
> But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed them!
decorators are things that modify functions in standard ways.
Specifically they are functions t
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, bruce wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Saw the decorator thread earlier.. didn't want to pollute it. I know, I
>> could google!
>>
>> But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed them!
>>
>
> I th
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, bruce wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Saw the decorator thread earlier.. didn't want to pollute it. I know, I
> could google!
>
> But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed them!
>
They're functions that modify the decorated function. If I make a functi
Hi.
Saw the decorator thread earlier.. didn't want to pollute it. I know, I
could google!
But, what are decorators, why are decorators? who decided you needed them!
Thanks!
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