On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Mary Lou Knack <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at some code from Enthought's ETS examples and ran across the > following statement: > > @mayavi2.standalone > > I have no idea what the "@" operator means, if anything. I tried searching > for it in the documentation (locally and online), but no luck. Or rather, > the local (windows) help said it couldn't search for that phrase (@) and the > online search turned up a bazillion hits and I don't know how to refine the > search.
It indicates a decorator. Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics#Decorators If you're just starting out in Python, decorators can be hard to get your head around... -- www.fsrtechnologies.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
